30 win Padma Awards 2025 for literature and education

Padma Awards 2025: One wins Padma Vibhushan, three Padma Bhushan, and 26 Padma Shri awards.

Padma Awards 2025 announced. (Image: President Droupadi Murmu/official X account)
Padma Awards 2025 announced. (Image: President Droupadi Murmu/official X account)

Vagisha Kaushik | January 25, 2025 | 10:57 PM IST

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of home affairs has announced the Padma Awards 2025, the highest civilian awards of the country. 30 have won awards under the ‘Literature and Education’ category including four under ‘Literature and Education-Journalism’.

President Droupadi Murmu has approved 139 Padma Awards including one duo case. Of this, seven will be presented Padma Vibhushan, 19 with Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri Awards. MHA also informed that 23 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of foreigners, Non-Resident Indians (NRI), Person of Indian Origin (PIO), Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI), and 13 posthumous awardees.

The awards are given in three categories - Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri - in various disciplines such as art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service.

‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year, and the President confers the awards at ceremonial functions held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March or April.

Padma Awards 2025: List of winners

The list of Padma Awards 2025 awardees is given below.

Padma Vibhushan

Name

Field

State/Country

M T Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous)

Literature and Education

Kerala

Padma Bhushan

Name

Field

State/Country

A Surya Prakash

Literature and Education-Journalism

Karnataka

Bibek Debroy (Posthumous)

Literature and Education

NCT Delhi

Rambahadur Rai

Literature and Education-Journalism

Uttar Pradesh

Padma Shri

Name

Field

State/Country

Anil Kumar Boro

Literature and Education

Assam

Arunoday Saha

Literature and Education

Tripura

Arvind Sharma

Literature and Education

Canada

Chandrakant Sheth (Posthumous)

Literature and Education

Gujarat

David R Syiemlieh

Literature and Education

Meghalaya

Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid

Literature and Education

Uttar Pradesh

Gita Upadhyay

Literature and Education

Assam

Hriday Narayan Dixit

Literature and Education

Uttar Pradesh

Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (Posthumous)(Duo)

Literature and Education-Journalism

Uttarakhand

Jagadish Joshila

Literature and Education

Madhya Pradesh

K L Krishna

Literature and Education

Andhra Pradesh

Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer

Literature and Education-Journalism

Tamil Nadu

Lalit Kumar Mangotra

Literature and Education

Jammu and Kashmir

Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli

Literature and Education

Maharashtra

Nagendra Nath Roy

Literature and Education

West Bengal

Nitin Nohria

Literature and Education

United States of America

Pratibha Satpathy

Literature and Education

Odisha

Ramdarash Mishra

Literature and Education

NCT Delhi

Renthlei Lalrawna

Literature and Education

Mizoram

Sant Ram Deswal

Literature and Education

Haryana

Seeni Viswanathan

Literature and Education

Tamil Nadu

Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv Kishan Bissa)

Literature and Education

Rajasthan

Stephen Knapp

Literature and Education

United States of America

Syed Ainul Hasan

Literature and Education

Uttar Pradesh

Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla

Literature and Education

Gujarat

Vadiraj Raghawendracharya Panchamukhi

Literature and Education

Andhra Pradesh

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