Current Context: President Droupadi Murmu presented the Padma Awards 2025 at the Civil Investiture Ceremony-II held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.

ABOUT PADMA AWARDS 2025

The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.

Categories & Criteria

• Padma Vibhushan: For Exceptional and distinguished service.
• Padma Bhushan: For distinguished service of high order.
• Padma Shri: Distinguished service in any field.
• Fields Covered: Art, Social Work, Public Affairs, Science & Engineering, Trade & Industry, Medicine, Literature & Education, Sports, Civil Service, Others.

2025 Statistics

• Total Awards: 139
• Padma Vibhushan: 7
• Padma Bhushan: 19
• Padma Shri: 113
• Posthumous Recipients: 13
• Foreign/NRI/PIO/OCI: 10
• Women Awardees: 23

❖ Padma Vibhushan (7 Awardees)

 

S.No	Name	Field	State/Country
1	Shri Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy	Medicine	Telangana
2	Justice (Retd.) Shri Jagdish Singh Khehar	Public Affairs	Chandigarh
3	Smt. Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia	Art	Gujarat
4	Shri Lakshminarayana Subramaniam	Art	Karnataka
5	Shri M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous)	Literature & Education	Kerala
6	Shri Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous)	Trade & Industry	Japan
7	Smt. Sharda Sinha (Posthumous)	Art	Bihar