**Executive Summary**
This document announces the Padma Awards for 2026, which are among the highest civilian awards in India. The awards are given in three categories: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri, across various disciplines. The President of India has approved 131 awards, to be conferred at ceremonial functions around March/April.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Award Categories and Conferment:**
* Padma Awards are conferred in three categories: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri.
* Awards are given in various fields like art, social work, public affairs, science, engineering, trade, medicine, etc.
* Padma Vibhushan is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service. Padma Bhushan is awarded for distinguished service of high order and Padma Shri is awarded for distinguished service in any field.
* Awards are announced annually on Republic Day and conferred by the President of India.
* **2026 Awards Summary:**
* A total of 131 Padma Awards have been approved for 2026, including 2 duo cases (counted as one award).
* The breakdown includes 5 Padma Vibhushan, 13 Padma Bhushan, and 113 Padma Shri awards.
* 19 awardees are women.
* 6 awardees are from the Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI category.
* 16 awards are posthumous.
* **Awardees List:**
* The document provides a detailed list of awardees, categorized by award (Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri).
* Each entry includes the awardee's name, field of contribution, and state/country.
**Impact Analysis**
**Award Recipients**
* **Impact:** Public recognition of their contributions in various fields.
* **Action Required:** Accept the award at the ceremonial function.
**President of India**
* **Impact:** Conferred responsibility
* **Action Required:** Confer the awards at the ceremonial functions around March/April.
**Citizens of India**
* **Impact:** Increased awareness of contributions to society
* **Action Required:** Celebrate the achievements of awardees.
Key Entities Referenced
Padma Awards: One of the highest civilian awards in India, conferred in three categories: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri.
Padma Vibhushan: Awarded for exceptional and distinguished service.
Padma Bhushan: Awarded for distinguished service of high order.
Padma Shri: Awarded for distinguished service in any field.
Republic Day: The Padma Awards are announced on this day.
Ministry of Home Affairs
Padma Awards 2026 announced
प्रव तथ: 25 JAN 2026 7:13PM by PIB Delhi
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
Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March / April every year. For the year 2026, the President has
approved conferment of 131 Padma Awards including 2 duo cases (in a duo case, the Award is counted as
one) as per list below. The list comprises 5 Padma Vibhushan, 13 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri
Awards. 19 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 6 persons from the category of
Foreigners / NRI / PIO / OCI and 16 Posthumous awardees.
Padma Vibhushan (5)
SN Name Field State / Country
1 Shri Dharmendra Singh Deol Art Maharashtra
(Posthumous)
2 Shri K T Thomas Public Affairs Kerala
3 Ms. N Rajam Art Uttar Pradesh
4 Shri P Narayanan Literature and Education Kerala
5 Shri V S Achuthanandhan Public Affairs Kerala
(Posthumous)
Padma Bhushan (13)SN Name Field State / Country
6 Ms. Alka Yagnik Art Maharashtra
7 Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari Public Affairs Uttarakhand
8 Shri Kallipatti Ramasamy Medicine Tamil Nadu
Palaniswamy
9 Shri Mammootty Art Kerala
10 Dr. Nori Dattatreyudu Medicine United States of
America
11 Shri Piyush Pandey (Posthumous) Art Maharashtra
12 Shri S K M Maeilanandhan Social Work Tamil Nadu
13 Shri Shatavadhani R Ganesh Art Karnataka
14 Shri Shibu Soren (Posthumous) Public Affairs Jharkhand
15 Shri Uday Kotak Trade and Industry Maharashtra
16 Shri V K Malhotra (Posthumous) Public Affairs Delhi
17 Shri Vellappally Natesan Public Affairs Kerala
18 Shri Vijay Amritraj Sports United States of
America
Padma Shri (113)
SN Name Field State / Country
19 Shri A E Muthunayagam Science and Engineering Kerala
20 Shri Anil Kumar Rastogi Art Uttar Pradesh
21 Shri Anke Gowda M. Social Work Karnataka
22 Ms. Armida Fernandez Medicine MaharashtraSN Name Field State / Country
23 Shri Arvind Vaidya Art Gujarat
24 Shri Ashok Khade Trade and Industry Maharashtra
25 Shri Ashok Kumar Singh Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh
26 Shri Asok Kumar Haldar Literature and Education West Bengal
27 Shri Baldev Singh Sports Punjab
28 Shri Bhagwandas Raikwar Sports Madhya Pradesh
29 Shri Bharat Singh Bharti Art Bihar
30 Shri Bhiklya Ladakya Dhinda Art Maharashtra
31 Shri Bishwa Bandhu (Posthumous) Art Bihar
32 Shri Brij Lal Bhat Social Work Jammu and Kashmir
33 Shri Buddha Rashmi Mani Others - Archaeology Uttar Pradesh
34 Dr. Budhri Tati Social Work Chhattisgarh
35 Shri Chandramouli Gaddamanugu Science and Engineering Telangana
36 Shri Charan Hembram Literature and Education Odisha
37 Shri Chiranji Lal Yadav Art Uttar Pradesh
38 Ms. Deepika Reddy Art Telangana
39 Shri Dharmiklal Chunilal Pandya Art Gujarat
40 Shri Gadde Babu Rajendra Prasad Art Andhra Pradesh
41 Shri Gafruddin Mewati Jogi Art Rajasthan
42 Shri Gambir Singh Yonzone Literature and Education West BengalSN Name Field State / Country
43 Shri Garimella Balakrishna Prasad Art Andhra Pradesh
(Posthumous)
44 Ms. Gayatri Balasubramanian and Art Tamil Nadu
Ms. Ranjani Balasubramanian
(Duo)*
45 Shri Gopal Ji Trivedi Science and Engineering Bihar
46 Shri Guduru Venkat Rao Medicine Telangana
47 Shri H V Hande Medicine Tamil Nadu
48 Shri Hally War Social Work Meghalaya
49 Shri Hari Madhab Mukhopadhyay Art West Bengal
(Posthumous)
50 Shri Haricharan Saikia Art Assam
51 Ms. Harmanpreet Kaur Bhullar Sports Punjab
52 Shri Inderjit Singh Sidhu Social Work Chandigarh
53 Shri Janardan Bapurao Bothe Social Work Maharashtra
54 Shri Jogesh Deuri Others - Agriculture Assam
55 Shri Juzer Vasi Science and Engineering Maharashtra
56 Shri Jyotish Debnath Art West Bengal
57 Shri K Pajanivel Sports Puducherry
58 Shri K Ramasamy Science and Engineering Tamil Nadu
59 Shri K Vijay Kumar Civil Service Tamil Nadu
60 Shri Kabindra Purkayastha Public Affairs Assam
(Posthumous)
61 Shri Kailash Chandra Pant Literature and Education Madhya PradeshSN Name Field State / Country
62 Ms. Kalamandalam Vimala Menon Art Kerala
63 Shri Kewal Krishan Thakral Medicine Uttar Pradesh
64 Shri Khem Raj Sundriyal Art Haryana
65 Ms. Kollakal Devaki Amma G Social Work Kerala
66 Shri Krishnamurty Science and Engineering Telangana
Balasubramanian
67 Shri Kumar Bose Art West Bengal
68 Shri Kumarasamy Thangaraj Science and Engineering Telangana
69 Prof. (Dr.) Lars-Christian Koch Art Germany
70 Ms. Liudmila Viktorovna Literature and Education Russia
Khokhlova
71 Shri Madhavan Ranganathan Art Maharashtra
72 Shri Maganti Murali Mohan Art Andhra Pradesh
73 Shri Mahendra Kumar Mishra Literature and Education Odisha
74 Shri Mahendra Nath Roy Literature and Education West Bengal
75 Shri Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar Literature and Education Delhi
76 Ms. Mangala Kapoor Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
77 Shri Mir Hajibhai Kasambhai Art Gujarat
78 Shri Mohan Nagar Social Work Madhya Pradesh
79 Shri Narayan Vyas Others - Archaeology Madhya Pradesh
80 Shri Naresh Chandra Dev Varma Literature and Education TripuraSN Name Field State / Country
81 Shri Nilesh Vinodchandra Social Work Gujarat
Mandlewala
82 Shri Nuruddin Ahmed Art Assam
83 Shri Othuvaar Thiruthani Art Tamil Nadu
Swaminathan
84 Dr. Padma Gurmet Medicine Ladakh
85 Shri Palkonda Vijay Anand Reddy Medicine Telangana
86 Ms. Pokhila Lekthepi Art Assam
87 Dr. Prabhakar Basavprabhu Kore Literature and Education Karnataka
88 Shri Prateek Sharma Medicine United States of
America
89 Shri Praveen Kumar Sports Uttar Pradesh
90 Shri Prem Lal Gautam Science and Engineering Himachal Pradesh
91 Shri Prosenjit Chatterjee Art West Bengal
92 Dr. Punniamurthy Natesan Medicine Tamil Nadu
93 Shri R Krishnan (Posthumous) Art Tamil Nadu
94 Shri R V S Mani Civil Service Delhi
95 Shri Rabilal Tudu Literature and Education West Bengal
96 Shri Raghupat Singh Others - Agriculture Uttar Pradesh
(Posthumous)
97 Shri Raghuveer Tukaram Khedkar Art Maharashtra
98 Shri Rajastapathi Kaliappa Art Tamil Nadu
GoundarSN Name Field State / Country
99 Shri Rajendra Prasad Medicine Uttar Pradesh
100 Shri Rama Reddy Mamidi Others - Animal Husbandry Telangana
(Posthumous)
101 Shri Ramamurthy Sreedher Others - Radio Broadcasting Delhi
102 Shri Ramchandra Godbole and Ms. Medicine Chhattisgarh
Suneeta Godbole (Duo)*
103 Shri Ratilal Borisagar Literature and Education Gujarat
104 Shri Rohit Sharma Sports Maharashtra
105 Ms. S G Susheelamma Social Work Karnataka
106 Shri Sangyusang S Pongener Art Nagaland
107 Sant Niranjan Dass Others - Spiritualism Punjab
108 Shri Sarat Kumar Patra Art Odisha
109 Shri Saroj Mandal Medicine West Bengal
110 Shri Satish Shah (Posthumous) Art Maharashtra
111 Shri Satyanarayan Nuwal Trade and Industry Maharashtra
112 Ms. Savita Punia Sports Haryana
113 Prof. Shafi Shauq Literature and Education Jammu and Kashmir
114 Shri Shashi Shekhar Vempati Literature and Education Karnataka
115 Shri Shrirang Devaba Lad Others - Agriculture Maharashtra
116 Ms. Shubha Venkatesha Iyengar Science and Engineering Karnataka
117 Shri Shyam Sundar Medicine Uttar Pradesh
118 Shri Simanchal Patro Art OdishaSN Name Field State / Country
119 Ms. Sivasankari Literature ands Education Tamil Nadu
120 Dr. Suresh Hanagavadi Medicine Karnataka
121 Swami Brahmdev Ji Maharaj Social Work Rajasthan
122 Shri T T Jagannathan Trade and Industry Karnataka
(Posthumous)
123 Shri Taga Ram Bheel Art Rajasthan
124 Shri Tarun Bhattacharya Art West Bengal
125 Shri Techi Gubin Social Work Arunachal Pradesh
126 Shri Thiruvaarur Bakthavathsalam Art Tamil Nadu
127 Ms. Tripti Mukherjee Art West Bengal
128 Shri Veezhinathan Kamakoti Science and Engineering Tamil Nadu
129 Shri Vempaty Kutumba Sastry Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh
130 Shri Vladimer Mestvirishvili Sports Georgia
(Posthumous)
131 Shri Yumnam Jatra Singh Art Manipur
(Posthumous)
Note: * In Duo case, the Award is counted as one.
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