For the year 2025, the President has approved conferment of 139 Padma Awards including 1 duo case. The list comprises 7 Padma 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 and13 Posthumous awardees. In a duo case, the Award is counted as one.
Mr. Pankaj Patel, Chairman of Zydus Lifesciences
FinTech BizNews Service
Mumbai, January 25, 2025: Padma Awards 2025 have been announced today by the government.
Padma Awardees 2025 include, among others, well known personalities from the field of Trade & Industry Arundhati Bhattacharya, Pankaj Patel and Pawan Goenka. Shekhar Kapur, Jaspinder Narula, Ashok Laxman Saraf, Ashwini Bhide Deshpande are winners from Art, Cinema.
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. For the year 2025, the President has approved conferment of 139Padma Awards including1 duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 7Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri Awards. 23of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and13Posthumous awardees.
Padma Vibhushan(7)
SN | Name | Field | State/Country |
Shri Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy | Medicine | Telangana | |
Justice (Retd.) Shri Jagdish Singh Khehar | Public Affairs | Chandigarh | |
Smt. Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia | Art | Gujarat | |
Shri LakshminarayanaSubramaniam | Art | Karnataka | |
Shri M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous) | Literature and Education | Kerala | |
Shri Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous) | Trade and Industry | Japan | |
Smt. Sharda Sinha (Posthumous) | Art | Bihar |
Padma Bhushan(19)
SN | Name | Field | State/Country |
Shri A Surya Prakash | Literature and Education-Journalism | Karnataka | |
Shri Anant Nag | Art | Karnataka | |
Shri Bibek Debroy(Posthumous) | Literature and Education | NCT Delhi | |
Shri Jatin Goswami | Art | Assam | |
Shri Jose Chacko Periappuram | Medicine | Kerala | |
Shri Kailash Nath Dikshit | Others-Archaeology | NCT Delhi | |
Shri Manohar Joshi(Posthumous) | Public Affairs | Maharashtra | |
Shri Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti | Trade and Industry | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri Nandamuri Balakrishna | Art | Andhra Pradesh | |
Shri P R Sreejesh | Sports | Kerala | |
Shri Pankaj Patel | Trade and Industry | Gujarat | |
Shri Pankaj Udhas(Posthumous) | Art | Maharashtra | |
Shri Rambahadur Rai | Literature and Education-Journalism | Uttar Pradesh | |
Sadhvi Ritambhara | Social Work | Uttar Pradesh | |
Shri S Ajith Kumar | Art | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri Shekhar Kapur | Art | Maharashtra | |
Ms. Shobana Chandrakumar | Art | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri Sushil Kumar Modi(Posthumous) | Public Affairs | Bihar | |
Shri Vinod Dham | Science and Engineering | United States of America |
Padma Shri (113)
SN | Name | Field | State/Country |
Shri Adwaita Charan Gadanayak | Art | Odisha | |
Shri Achyut Ramchandra Palav | Art | Maharashtra | |
Shri Ajay V Bhatt | Science and Engineering | United States of America | |
Shri Anil Kumar Boro | Literature and Education | Assam | |
Shri Arijit Singh | Art | West Bengal | |
Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra | |
Shri Arunoday Saha | Literature and Education | Tripura | |
Shri Arvind Sharma | Literature and Education | Canada | |
Shri Ashok Kumar Mahapatra | Medicine | Odisha | |
Shri Ashok Laxman Saraf | Art | Maharashtra | |
Shri Ashutosh Sharma | Science and Engineering | Uttar Pradesh | |
Smt. Ashwini Bhide Deshpande | Art | Maharashtra | |
Shri Baijnath Maharaj | Others-Spiritualism | Rajasthan | |
Shri Barry Godfray John | Art | NCT Delhi | |
Smt. Begam Batool | Art | Rajasthan | |
Shri Bharat Gupt | Art | NCT Delhi | |
Shri Bheru Singh Chouhan | Art | Madhya Pradesh | |
Shri Bhim Singh Bhavesh | Social Work | Bihar | |
Smt. Bhimavva Doddabalappa Shillekyathara | Art | Karnataka | |
Shri Budhendra Kumar Jain | Medicine | Madhya Pradesh | |
Shri C S Vaidyanathan | Public Affairs | NCT Delhi | |
Shri Chaitram Deochand Pawar | Social Work | Maharashtra | |
Shri Chandrakant Sheth(Posthumous) | Literature and Education | Gujarat | |
Shri Chandrakant Sompura | Others-Architecture | Gujarat | |
Shri Chetan E Chitnis | Science and Engineering | France | |
Shri David R Syiemlieh | Literature and Education | Meghalaya | |
Shri Durga Charan Ranbir | Art | Odisha | |
Shri Farooq Ahmad Mir | Art | Jammu And Kashmir | |
Shri Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | |
Smt. Gita Upadhyay | Literature and Education | Assam | |
Shri Gokul Chandra Das | Art | West Bengal | |
Shri Guruvayur Dorai | Art | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri Harchandan Singh Bhatty | Art | Madhya Pradesh | |
Shri Hariman Sharma | Others-Agriculture | Himachal Pradesh | |
Shri Harjinder Singh Srinagar Wale | Art | Punjab | |
Shri Harvinder Singh | Sports | Haryana | |
Shri Hassan Raghu | Art | Karnataka | |
Shri Hemant Kumar | Medicine | Bihar | |
Shri Hriday Narayan Dixit | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | |
Shri Hugh and Colleen Gantzer(Posthumous)(Duo)* | Literature and Education-Journalism | Uttarakhand | |
Shri Inivalappil Mani Vijayan | Sports | Kerala | |
Shri Jagadish Joshila | Literature and Education | Madhya Pradesh | |
Smt. Jaspinder Narula | Art
| Maharashtra | |
Shri Jonas Masetti | Others-Spiritualism | Brazil | |
Shri Joynacharan Bathari | Art | Assam | |
Smt. Jumde Yomgam Gamlin | Social Work | Arunachal Pradesh | |
Shri K. Damodaran | Others-Culinary | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri K L Krishna | Literature and Education | Andhra Pradesh | |
Smt. K Omanakutty Amma | Art | Kerala | |
Shri Kishore Kunal(Posthumous) | Civil Service | Bihar | |
Shri L Hangthing | Others-Agriculture | Nagaland | |
Shri Lakshmipathy Ramasubbaiyer | Literature and Education-Journalism | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri Lalit Kumar Mangotra | Literature and Education | Jammu And Kashmir | |
Shri Lama Lobzang(Posthumous) | Others-Spiritualism | Ladakh | |
Smt. Libia Lobo Sardesai | Social Work | Goa | |
Shri M D Srinivas | Science and Engineering | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri Madugula Nagaphani Sarma | Art | Andhra Pradesh | |
Shri Mahabir Nayak | Art | Jharkhand | |
Smt. Mamata Shankar | Art | West Bengal | |
Shri Manda Krishna Madiga | Public Affairs | Telangana | |
Shri Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli | Literature and Education | Maharashtra | |
Shri Miriyala Apparao(Posthumous) | Art | Andhra Pradesh | |
Shri Nagendra Nath Roy | Literature and Education | West Bengal | |
Shri Narayan (Bhulai Bhai)(Posthumous) | Public Affairs | Uttar Pradesh | |
Shri Naren Gurung | Art | Sikkim | |
Smt. Neerja Bhatla | Medicine | NCT Delhi | |
Smt. Nirmala Devi | Art | Bihar | |
Shri Nitin Nohria | Literature and Education | United States of America | |
Shri Onkar Singh Pahwa | Trade and Industry | Punjab | |
Shri P Datchanamoorthy | Art | Puducherry | |
Shri Pandi Ram Mandavi | Art | Chhattisgarh | |
Shri Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai | Art | Gujarat | |
Shri Pawan Goenka | Trade and Industry | West Bengal | |
Shri Prashanth Prakash | Trade and Industry | Karnataka | |
Smt. Pratibha Satpathy | Literature and Education | Odisha | |
Shri Purisai Kannappa Sambandan | Art | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri R Ashwin | Sports | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri R G Chandramogan | Trade and Industry | Tamil Nadu | |
Smt. Radha Bahin Bhatt | Social Work | Uttarakhand | |
Shri Radhakrishnan Devasenapathy | Art | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri Ramdarash Mishra | Literature and Education | NCT Delhi | |
Shri Ranendra Bhanu Majumdar | Art | Maharashtra | |
Shri Ratan Kumar Parimoo | Art | Gujarat | |
Shri Reba Kanta Mahanta | Art | Assam | |
Shri Renthlei Lalrawna | Literature and Education | Mizoram | |
Shri Ricky Gyan Kej | Art | Karnataka | |
Shri Sajjan Bhajanka | Trade and Industry | West Bengal | |
Smt. Sally Holkar | Trade and Industry | Madhya Pradesh | |
Shri Sant Ram Deswal | Literature and Education | Haryana | |
Shri Satyapal Singh | Sports | Uttar Pradesh | |
Shri Seeni Viswanathan | Literature and Education | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri Sethuraman Panchanathan | Science and Engineering | United States of America | |
Smt. Sheikha Shaikha Ali Al-Jaber Al-Sabah | Medicine | Kuwait | |
Shri Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Shiv Kishan Bissa) | Literature and Education | Rajasthan | |
Shri Shyam Bihari Agrawal | Art | Uttar Pradesh | |
Smt. Soniya Nityanand | Medicine
| Uttar Pradesh | |
Shri Stephen Knapp | Literature and Education | United States of America | |
Shri Subhash Khetulal Sharma | Others-Agriculture | Maharashtra | |
Shri Suresh Harilal Soni | Social Work | Gujarat | |
Shri Surinder Kumar Vasal | Science and Engineering | Delhi | |
Shri Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj) | Others-Spiritualism | West Bengal | |
Shri Syed Ainul Hasan | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh | |
Shri Tejendra Narayan Majumdar | Art | West Bengal | |
Smt. Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi | Art | Manipur | |
Shri Tushar Durgeshbhai Shukla | Literature and Education | Gujarat | |
Shri Vadiraj Raghawendracharya Panchamukhi | Literature and Education | Andhra Pradesh | |
Shri Vasudeo Kamath | Art | Maharashtra | |
Shri Velu Aasaan | Art | Tamil Nadu | |
Shri Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar | Art | Karnataka | |
Shri Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Ji Maharaj | Others-Spiritualism | Bihar | |
Smt. Vijayalakshmi Deshamane | Medicine | Karnataka | |
Shri Vilas Dangre | Medicine | Maharashtra | |
Shri Vinayak Lohani | Social Work | West Bengal |
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Arundhati Bhattacharya is Chairperson & CEO, Salesforce India Since April 2020. She has been Chairman of SWIFT India since April 2019. Salesforce is a global leader in Customer Relationship Management software.
Arundhati Bhattacharya has 40+ years of rich experience in India's financial sector working across varied roles and diverse national & international locations.
She has been on Board Of Directors of Reliance Industries, Wipro Limited and Piramal Group.
She was the first woman to chair the State Bank of India (SBI) from 2013 to 2017 in its 210 years.
During her 4 years tenure as the first-ever woman Chair of State Bank of India, a Fortune 500 company, she stamped her imprint on the financial world not just in India but globally as well.
She is credited with upscaling the Bank's technology initiatives in order to give this 212 year old largest bank of India (22% market share) a digital edge that has been acknowledged by Industry as path breaking. Her work in the area of Human Resources with special focus on the status of women and "challenged" members of the work force, has also been of special significance. Under her leadership of the bank was adjudged one of India's top 3 Best Places to work in India by leading Global Job site ‘Indeed' based on their 15 million reviews globally for most highly rated reviews on overall employee experience.
She also engineered the merger of the mother Bank with its six Associate banks creating an entity three times the size of its nearest competitor. The entire exercise was executed smoothly over a period of six weeks and was credited with being an operation that was completed with minimal or no disruption of customer service across its network of 22000 branches and 56000 ATMs as well as over 5000 franchisee outlets.
Forbes magazine had ranked her 25th in their list of "Most Powerful Women in the World" and 5th in "The Most Powerful Women in Finance" category in 2016. She has also been featured in the Fortune List of Top 50 globally most powerful women in business and ranked among the top 5 in the Asia-Pacific region. She was included in the top 100 Global Thinkers in 2014 by Foreign Policy Magazine and was one of the two Indians on the list. She has been ranked 26th in the fourth edition of Fortune's World 50 Greatest Leaders list, becoming the only Indian corporate leader to be featured in the list.
She has been outspoken in her views of not being driven by quarterly numbers to the detriment of long term strategy and goals.
She was MD & CEO of SBI's investment banking arm, SBI Capital Markets. Earlier, as Dy. Managing Director in SBI, she headed the largest Human Resources Department of the Banking Industry consisting of a work force of over 200,000+ employees, which includes 65,000 officers.
Ms. Bhattacharya is a postgraduate degree holder in English. She is also an Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers.
At Reliance Industries Limited, she is an Independent Director and a Member of the Stakeholders’ Relationship Committee and Environmental, Social and Governance Committee.
During her tenure as the Chairperson of SBI, she introduced sabbatical leave for women bank employees. She has been nominated by the Government to be a part of select committees, including the Lokpal Search Committee, Padma Awardees Selection Committee, SEBI's Mutual Fund Advisory Committee, and National Coal Index Committee.
Her interests include reading and travelling. She is also associated with initiatives and institutions for empowering persons with disabilities in order to integrate them better in society.
Pankaj Patel
Mr. Pankaj Patel is the Chairman of Zydus Lifesciences Ltd., a discovery-driven, global Lifesciences company with operations in 55 countries worldwide. A stalwart and a visionary, Mr. Pankaj Patel combines both research and techno-commercial expertise. He has published over 100 research papers in peer reviewed journals and is a co-inventor in more than 64 patents. He has been conferred with Dsc. (Honoris Causa) by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow. Mr. Patel has been appointed as the Part Time Non-official Director in Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India. He is on the board of several institutions, including Chairman of IIM Udaipur and Chairperson of the Board of Governors of IIM Ahmedabad and Invest India. He is also a Member of the Governing Board of India Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. He is also a Member of the CEO Advisory Committee of International Generics and Biosimilars Association (IGBA). Mr. Patel is a Past President of the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). He also officiates on the board of several Not-for-Profit & charitable institutions.
In recognition of his contributions to the healthcare industry in India, Mr. Pankaj Patel is a recipient of several awards including the Acharya PC Ray Memorial Gold Medal Award and the Eminent Pharmacist Award, the India Innovator Award at the India Business Leaders Awards instituted by CNBC. For his entrepreneurial vision, Mr. Patel was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Life Sciences category.
Prior to being appointed as Chairperson, Mr. Pankaj R. Patel has been a member of the IIMA Board of Governors for eight years. Mr. Pankaj Patel combines both research and techno-commercial expertise and has published over 100 research papers in peer reviewed journals and is a co-inventor in more than 64 patents.
Mr. Patel has been appointed as the Part Time Non-official Director in Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India. He is on the Governing Board of IIM Udaipur (as Chairman), Invest India, and India Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. He is also a Member of the CEO Advisory Committee of International Generics and Biosimilars Association (IGBA). Mr. Patel is a Past President of the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI).
Pawan K Goenka:
Pawan K Goenka is Chairman of INSPACe, Dept of Space, Chairman SCALE, DPIIT, committed to aatmanirbhar Bharat, ex Mahindra, love Bollywood movies, playing bridge.
Dr. Goenka serves as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Madras. He is also the Chairperson of the Steering Committee for Advancing Local value-add and Employment (SCALE), an initiative under the Ministry of Commerce & Industry. To facilitate private sector participation, the government has created the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe), as a single-window, independent, nodal agency which functions as an autonomous agency in Department of Space (DOS).
Dr. Pawan Goenka earned his B. Tech. from IIT, Kanpur and Ph.D. from Cornell University, U.S.A. He is a Graduate of Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School.
His professional experience includes working at General Motors R&D Centre, Detroit, U.S.A., for 14 years and at Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. for 28 years. At Mahindra he led the development of the Scorpio SUV and built a strong R&D infrastructure and a robust product portfolio. He retired from M&M as MD & CEO on April 1, 2021.
