The government of India has announced Padma Awards on 25th January 2024. The Padma Awards are one of the highest civilian honors of India announced annually on the eve of Republic Day. The Awards are given in three categories: Padma Vibhushan (for exceptional and distinguished service), Padma Bhushan (distinguished service of higher order) and Padma Shri (distinguished service). The award seeks to recognize achievements in all fields of activities or disciplines where an element of public service is involved.
The Padma Awards are conferred on the recommendations made by the Padma Awards Committee, which is constituted by the Prime Minister every year. The nomination process is open to the public. Even self-nomination can be made.
For 2024 a total of 132 personalities have been honored with Padma Awards
- Padma Vibhushan – 5
- Padma Bhushan – 17
- Padma Shri – 110
Padma Vibhushan (5)
| SN | Name | Field | State/Region/Country |
| 1 | Ms. Vyjayantimala Bali | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 2 | Shri Konidela Chiranjeevi | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | Shri M Venkaiah Naidu | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
| 4 | Shri Bindeshwar Pathak (Posthumous) | Social Work | Bihar |
| 5 | Ms. Padma Subrahmanyam | Art | Tamil Nadu |
Padma Bhushan (17)
| SN | Name | Field | State/Region/Country |
| 6 | Ms. M Fathima Beevi (Posthumous) | Public Affairs | Kerala |
| 7 | Shri Hormusji N Cama | Literature & Education – Journalism | Maharashtra |
| 8 | Shri Mithun Chakraborty | Art | West Bengal |
| 9 | Shri Sitaram Jindal | Trade & Industry | Karnataka |
| 10 | Shri Young Liu | Trade & Industry | Taiwan |
| 11 | Shri Ashwin Balachand Mehta | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Shri Satyabrata Mookherjee (Posthumous) | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
| 13 | Shri Ram Naik | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 14 | Shri Tejas Madhusudan Patel | Medicine | Gujarat |
| 15 | Shri Olanchery Rajagopal | Public Affairs | Kerala |
| 16 | Shri Dattatray Ambadas Mayaloo alias Rajdutt | Art | Maharashtra |
| 17 | Shri Togdan Rinpoche (Posthumous) | Others – Spiritualism | Ladakh |
| 18 | Shri Pyarelal Sharma | Art | Maharashtra |
| 19 | Shri Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur | Medicine | Bihar |
| 20 | Ms. Usha Uthup | Art | West Bengal |
| 21 | Shri Vijaykanth (Posthumous) | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 22 | Shri Kundan Vyas | Literature & Education – Journalism | Maharashtra |
Padma Shri (110)
| SN | Name | Field | State/Region/Country |
| 23 | Shri Khalil Ahamad | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 24 | Shri Badrappan M | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 25 | Shri Kaluram Bamaniya | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
| 26 | Ms. Rezwana Choudhury Bannya | Art | Bangladesh |
| 27 | Ms. Naseem Bano | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 28 | Shri Ramlal Bareth | Art | Chhattisgarh |
| 29 | Ms. Gita Roy Barman | Art | West Bengal |
| 30 | Ms. Parbati Baruah | Social Work | Assam |
| 31 | Shri Sarbeswar Basumatary | Others – Agriculture | Assam |
| 32 | Shri Som Datt Battu | Art | Himachal Pradesh |
| 33 | Ms. Takdira Begum | Art | West Bengal |
| 34 | Shri Sathyanarayana Beleri | Others – Agriculture | Kerala |
| 35 | Shri Drona Bhuyan | Art | Assam |
| 36 | Shri Ashok Kumar Biswas | Art | Bihar |
| 37 | Shri Rohan Machanda Bopanna | Sports | Karnataka |
| 38 | Ms. Smriti Rekha Chakma | Art | Tripura |
| 39 | Shri Narayan Chakraborty | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 40 | Shri A Velu Ananda Chari | Art | Telangana |
| 41 | Shri Ram Chet Chaudhary | Science & Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
| 42 | Ms. K Chellammal | Others – Agriculture | Andaman & Nicobar Islands |
| 43 | Ms. Joshna Chinappa | Sports | Tamil Nadu |
| 44 | Ms. Charlotte Chopin | Others – Yoga | France |
| 45 | Shri Raghuveer Choudhary | Literature & Education | Gujarat |
| 46 | Shri Joe D Cruz | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 47 | Shri Ghulam Nabi Dar | Art | Jammu & Kashmir |
| 48 | Shri Chitta Ranjan Debbarma | Others – Spiritualism | Tripura |
| 49 | Shri Uday Vishwanath Deshpande | Sports | Maharashtra |
| 50 | Ms. Prema Dhanraj | Medicine | Karnataka |
| 51 | Shri Radha Krishan Dhiman | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| 52 | Shri Manohar Krishana Dole | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 53 | Shri Pierre Sylvain Filliozat | Literature & Education | France |
| 54 | Shri Mahabir Singh Guddu | Art | Haryana |
| 55 | Ms. Anupama Hoskere | Art | Karnataka |
| 56 | Shri Yazdi Maneksha Italia | Medicine | Gujarat |
| 57 | Shri Rajaram Jain | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 58 | Shri Jankilal | Art | Rajasthan |
| 59 | Shri Ratan Kahar | Art | West Bengal |
| 60 | Shri Yashwant Singh Kathoch | Literature & Education | Uttarakhand |
| 61 | Shri Zahir I Kazi | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 62 | Shri Gaurav Khanna | Sports | Uttar Pradesh |
| 63 | Shri Surendra Kishore | Literature & Education – Journalism | Bihar |
| 64 | Shri Dasari Kondappa | Art | Telangana |
| 65 | Shri Sridhar Makam Krishnamurthy | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 66 | Ms. Yanung Jamoh Lego | Others – Agriculture | Arunachal Pradesh |
| 67 | Shri Jordan Lepcha | Art | Sikkim |
| 68 | Shri Satendra Singh Lohia | Sports | Madhya Pradesh |
| 69 | Shri Binod Maharana | Art | Odisha |
| 70 | Ms. Purnima Mahato | Sports | Jharkhand |
| 71 | Ms. Uma Maheshwari D | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
| 72 | Shri Dukhu Majhi | Social Work | West Bengal |
| 73 | Shri Ram Kumar Mallick | Art | Bihar |
| 74 | Shri Hemchand Manjhi | Medicine | Chhattisgarh |
| 75 | Shri Chandrashekhar Mahadeorao Meshram | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 76 | Shri Surendra Mohan Mishra (Posthumous) | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 77 | Shri Ali Mohammed & Shri Ghani Mohammed* (Duo) | Art | Rajasthan |
| 78 | Ms. Kalpana Morparia | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 79 | Ms. Chami Murmu | Social Work | Jharkhand |
| 80 | Shri Sasindran Muthuvel | Public Affairs | Papua New Guinea |
| 81 | Ms. G Nachiyar | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 82 | Ms. Kiran Nadar | Art | Delhi |
| 83 | Shri Pakaravur Chithran Namboodiripad (Posthumous) | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 84 | Shri Narayanan E P | Art | Kerala |
| 85 | Shri Shailesh Nayak | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 86 | Shri Harish Nayak (Posthumous) | Literature & Education | Gujarat |
| 87 | Shri Fred Negrit | Literature & Education | France |
| 88 | Shri Hari Om | Science & Engineering | Haryana |
| 89 | Shri Bhagabat Padhan | Art | Odisha |
| 90 | Shri Sanatan Rudra Pal | Art | West Bengal |
| 91 | Shri Shankar Baba Pundlikrao Papalkar | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 92 | Shri Radhe Shyam Pareek | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| 93 | Shri Dayal Mavjibhai Parmar | Medicine | Gujarat |
| 94 | Shri Binod Kumar Pasayat | Art | Odisha |
| 95 | Ms. Silbi Passah | Art | Meghalaya |
| 96 | Ms. Shanti Devi Paswan & Shri Shivan Paswan* (Duo) | Art | Bihar |
| 97 | Shri Sanjay Anant Patil | Others – Agriculture | Goa |
| 98 | Shri Muni Narayana Prasad | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 99 | Shri K S Rajanna | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 100 | Shri Chandrashekar Channapatna Rajannachar | Medicine | Karnataka |
| 101 | Shri Bhagwatilal Rajpurohit | Literature & Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| 102 | Shri Romalo Ram | Art | Jammu & Kashmir |
| 103 | Shri Navjivan Rastogi | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 104 | Ms. Nirmal Rishi | Art | Punjab |
| 105 | Shri Pran Sabharwal | Art | Punjab |
| 106 | Shri Gaddam Sammaiah | Art | Telangana |
| 107 | Shri Sangthankima | Social Work | Mizoram |
| 108 | Shri Machihan Sasa | Art | Manipur |
| 109 | Shri Omprakash Sharma | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
| 110 | Shri Eklabya Sharma | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 111 | Shri Ram Chander Sihag | Science & Engineering | Haryana |
| 112 | Shri Harbinder Singh | Sports | Delhi |
| 113 | Shri Gurvinder Singh | Social Work | Haryana |
| 114 | Shri Godawari Singh | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 115 | Shri Ravi Prakash Singh | Science & Engineering | Mexico |
| 116 | Shri Seshampatti T Sivalingam | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 117 | Shri Somanna | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 118 | Shri Kethavath Somlal | Literature & Education | Telangana |
| 119 | Ms. Shashi Soni | Trade & Industry | Karnataka |
| 120 | Ms. Urmila Srivastava | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 121 | Shri Nepal Chandra Sutradhar (Posthumous) | Art | West Bengal |
| 122 | Shri Gopinath Swain | Art | Odisha |
| 123 | Shri Laxman Bhatt Tailang | Art | Rajasthan |
| 124 | Ms. Maya Tandon | Social Work | Rajasthan |
| 125 | Ms. Aswathi Thirunal Gouri Lakshmi Bayi Thampuratty | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 126 | Shri Jagdish Labhshanker Trivedi | Art | Gujarat |
| 127 | Ms. Sano Vamuzo | Social Work | Nagaland |
| 128 | Shri Balakrishnan Sadanam Puthiya Veetil | Art | Kerala |
| 129 | Shri Kurella Vittalacharya | Literature & Education | Telangana |
| 130 | Shri Kiran Vyas | Others – Yoga | France |
| 131 | Shri Jageshwar Yadav | Social Work | Chhattisgarh |
| 132 | Shri Babu Ram Yadav | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
Note: * In Duo case, the Award is counted as one.
Source: press information bureau of India
Padma Shri Awardees Important Profiles
- Parbati Baruah: India’s first female elephant mahout, who overcame stereotypes to create a space for herself in a traditionally male-dominated field
- Jageshwar Yadav: Tribal welfare worker from Jashpur who dedicated his life to the upliftment of marginalized Birhor & Pahadi Korwa people
- Chami Murmu: Tribal environmentalist and women empowerment champion from Seraikela Kharsawan
- Gurvinder Singh: Divyang social worker from Sirsa who worked for the betterment of the homeless, destitute, women, orphans and Divyangjan.
- Sathyanarayana Beleri: Rice farmer from Kasaragod, who evolved into a guardian of paddy crop by preserving over 650 traditional rice varieties.
- Sangthankima: Social worker from Aizawl who has been running Mizoram’s largest orphanage ‘Thutak Nunpuitu Team’.
- Hemchand Manjhi: A traditional medicinal practitioner from Narayanpur, providing affordable healthcare to villagers for over 5 decades, having started serving the needy at the age of 15.
- Dukhu Majhi: Tribal environmentalist from Sindri village, Purulia
- K Chellammal: Organic Farmer from South Andaman, successfully developed a 10-acre organic farm.
- Yanung Jamoh Lego: East Siang-based herbal medicine expert who has provided medical care to over 10,000 patients, educated 1 lakh individuals on medicinal herbs and trained SHGs in their use.
- Somanna: Tribal welfare worker from Mysuru, tirelessly working for the upliftment of the Jenu Kuruba tribe for over 4 decades.
- Sarbeswar Basumatary: Tribal farmer from Chirang who successfully adopted a mixed integrated farming approach and cultivated varieties of crops like coconuts, oranges, paddy, litchis and maize.
- Prema Dhanraj: Plastic (reconstructive) surgeon & social worker, dedicated to the care and rehabilitation of burn victims – her legacy extends beyond surgery, championing burn prevention, awareness and policy reform.
- Uday Vishwanath Deshpande: International Mallakhamb coach, who worked relentlessly in reviving, revitalizing and popularizing the sport at the global level.
- Yazdi Maneksha Italia: Renowned microbiologist who pioneered the development of India’s inaugural Sickle Cell Anemia Control Program (SCACP).
- Shanti Devi Paswan & Shivan Paswan: Husband-wife from the Dusadh community, who overcame social stigma to become globally recognized Godna painters – exhibiting artwork in countries like the USA, Japan and Hong Kong and training over 20,000 women.
- Ratan Kahar: A renowned Bhadu folk singer from Birbhum, has devoted over 60 years to folk music.
- Ashok Kumar Biswas: Prolific Tikuli painter credited for revival and modification of the Mauryan era artform through his efforts over the last 5 decades.
- Balakrishnan Sadanam Puthiya Veetil: Distinguished Kalluvazhi Kathakali Dancer with a career spanning over 60 years – earning global acclaim and promoting a deeper understanding of Indian traditions.
- Uma Maheshwari D: First female Harikatha Exponent, has showcased her skill in Sanskrit recitation.
- Gopinath Swain: Krishna Leela Singer from Ganjam, dedicated his life to preserving and promoting the tradition.
- Smriti Rekha Chakma: Chakma Loinloom Shawl Weaver from Tripura, transforms eco-friendly vegetable-dyed cotton threads into traditional designs, promoting the use of natural dyes.
- Omprakash Sharma: Mach Theatre Artist who has devoted 7 decades of his life to promoting this 200-year-old traditional dance drama of the Malwa region.
- Narayanan EP: Veteran Theyyam Folk Dancer from Kannur – mastery extending beyond dance to the entire Theyyam ecosystem including costume designing & face painting techniques.
- Bhagabat Padhan: Exponent of Sabda Nrutya folk dance from Bargarh, who has taken the dance form beyond the temples.
- Sanatan Rudra Pal: Distinguished sculptor with over 5 decades of experience, preserving and promoting the traditional art form – specializes in crafting Sabeki Durga idols.
- Badrappan M: Exponent of Valli Oyil Kummi Folk Dance from Coimbatore – a mixed form of song and dance performance that depicts the stories of deities ‘Murugan’ and ‘Valli’.
- Jordan Lepcha: Bamboo Craftsman from Mangan, who is nurturing the cultural heritage of the Lepcha tribe.
- Machihan Sasa: Longpi potter from Ukhrul who dedicated 5 decades to preserving this ancient Manipuri traditional pottery which traces its roots back to the Neolithic period (10,000 BC).
- Gaddam Sammaiah: Eminent Chindu Yakshaganam theatre artist from Jangaon, performing this rich heritage art form for over 5 decades over 19,000 shows.
- Jankilal: Behrupiya artist from Bhilwara, mastering the fading art form and captivating global audiences for over 6 decades.
- Dasari Kondappa: Third generation Burra Veena player from Damaragidda village in Narayanpet, has dedicated his life to preserving the artform.
- Babu Ram Yadav: Brass Marori craftsperson with over 6 decades of experience in creating intricate brass artefacts using traditional crafting techniques.
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