30 win Padma Awards 2025 for literature and education
Vagisha Kaushik | January 25, 2025 | 10:57 PM IST | 2 mins read
Padma Awards 2025: One wins Padma Vibhushan, three Padma Bhushan, and 26 Padma Shri awards.
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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