Padma Awards 2024 Announced
By PIB Delhi
Padma Awards – one of the highest civilian Awards of the country is conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines/fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘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.
2. These Awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March / April every year. For the year 2024, the President has approved the conferment of 132 Padma Awards including 2 duo cases (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per the list below. The list comprises 5 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan, and 110 Padma Shri Awards. 30 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 8 persons from the category of Foreigners / NRI / PIO / OCI and 9 Posthumous awardees.
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 Pradhan 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
* In Duo’s case, the Award is counted as one.