Padma Awards 2025

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Why in the news?

• For the year 2025, the President has approved conferment of 139 Padma Awards .

Important points:

• 113 are awarded with Padma Shree, 19 with Padma Bhushan and 7, Padma Vibhushan; MT. Vasudevan Nair, Osamu Suzuki and Sharda Sinha are posthumously awarded with Padma Vibhushan.
• Deceased writerM.T. Vasudevan Nair, hockey player and Olympian P.R. Sreejesh, actors Nandamuri Balakrishna and Ajith Kumar, Cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin and deceased industrialist Osamu Suzuki are some of the eminent persons who got the awards.

About Padma Awards:

• Padma Awards -one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are 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.
• These Awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at RashtrapatiBhawan usually around March/ April every year. 
•  The list comprises 7Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri Awards. 23 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 13 Posthumous awardees.
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