List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2020–2029)

The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award of the Republic of India.^[1] Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service of a high order", without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex.^[2] The recipients receive a Sanad, a certificate signed by the President of India and a circular-shaped medallion with no monetary association. The recipients are announced every year on Republic Day (26 January) and registered in The Gazette of India—a publication used for official government notices and released weekly by the Department of Publication, under the Ministry of Urban Development.^[3] The conferral of the award is not considered official without its publication in the Gazette. The name of a recipient, whose award has been revoked or restored, both of which require the authority of the President, is archived and they are required to surrender their medal when their name is struck from the register.^[4] As of 2019^[update], none of the conferments of Padma Bhushan during 2010s have been revoked or restored. The recommendations are received from all the state and the union territory governments, as well as from Ministries of the Government of India, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan awardees, the Institutes of Excellence, the Ministers, the Chief Ministers and the Governors of State, and the Members of Parliament including private individuals.^[3]

Padma Bhushan
Type	National Civilian
Country	India
Presented by	Government of India
Ribbon
Obverse	A centrally located lotus flower is embossed and the text "Padma" written in Devanagari script is placed above and the text "Bhushan" is placed below the lotus.
Reverse	A platinum State Emblem of India placed in the centre with the national motto of India, "Satyameva Jayate" (Truth alone triumphs) in Devanagari Script
Established	1954
First award	1954
Total	51
Precedence
Next (higher)	Padma Vibhushan
Next (lower)	Padma Shri
← Padma Vibhushan "Dusra Varg" (Class II)

When instituted in 1954, the Padma Bhushan was classified as "Dusra Warg" (Class II) under the three-tier Padma Vibhushan awards, which were preceded by the Bharat Ratna in hierarchy. On 15 January 1955, the Padma Vibhushan was reclassified into three different awards as the Padma Vibhushan, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri.^[3] The criteria included "distinguished service of a high order in any field including service rendered by Government servants", but excluded those working with the public sector undertakings with the exception of doctors and scientists. The 1954 statutes did not allow posthumous awards; this was subsequently modified in the January 1955 statute.^[4] The design was also changed to the form that is currently in use; it portrays a circular-shaped toned bronze medallion 1+3⁄4 inches (44 mm) in diameter and 1⁄8 inch (3.2 mm) thick. The centrally placed pattern made of outer lines of a square of 1+3⁄16 inches (30 mm) side is embossed with a knob carved within each of the outer angles of the pattern. A raised circular space of diameter 1+1⁄16 inches (27 mm) is placed at the centre of the decoration. A centrally located lotus flower is embossed on the obverse side of the medal and the text "Padma" is placed above and the text "Bhushan" is placed below the lotus written in Devanagari script. The State Emblem of India is displayed in the centre of the reverse side, together with the national motto of India, "Satyameva Jayate" (Truth alone triumphs) in Devanagari script, which is inscribed on the lower edge. The rim, the edges and all embossing on either side is of standard gold with the text "Padma Bhushan" of gold gilt. The medal is suspended by a pink riband 1+1⁄4 inches (32 mm) in width with a broad white stripe in the middle.^[3][4] It is ranked fifth in the order of precedence of wearing of medals and decorations of the Indian civilian and military awards.^[a]

As of 2023, a total of 51 individuals have been conferred with the award and have been conferred upon six foreign recipients – one from Bangladesh and Mexico each and six from the United States of America. Individuals from ten different fields were awarded, which includes one from medical field, two civil servants, sportspersons and from Science & Engineering field each, three from social work, seven artists, eight from literature and education, nine from trade and industry, eleven from public affairs, and six from other fields. Most recently on 25 January 2025, the award has been bestowed upon nineteen recipients.^[6]

Overview

Award recipients by year[6] Year Number of recipients 2020 16 2021 10 2022 16 2023 9 2024 17 2025 19	Award recipients by field[6] Field Number of recipients Arts 7 Civil Service 2 Literature & Education 8 Medicine 1 Others 6 Public Affairs 11 Science & Engineering 2 Social Work 3 Sports 2 Trade & Industry 9

Recipients

• 2020
• 2021
• 2022
• 2023
• 2024
• 2025

Key

+ Naturalised citizen recipient

* Non-citizen recipient

# Posthumous recipient

List of Padma Bhushan award recipients, showing the year, field, and state/country

Year	Recipient	Field	Country / State
2020	Sri M	Others	Kerala
2020	Syed Muazzem Ali*#[i]	Public Affairs	Bangladesh
2020	Muzaffar Hussain Baig	Public Affairs	Jammu and Kashmir
2020	Ajoy Chakrabarty	Arts	West Bengal
2020	Manoj Das	Literature & Education	Puducherry
2020	Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi	Others	Gujarat
2020	Krishnammal Jagannathan	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
2020	S. C. Jamir	Public Affairs	Nagaland
2020	Anil Prakash Joshi	Social Work	Uttarakhand
2020	Tsering Landol	Medicine	Ladakh
2020	Anand Mahindra	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2020	N. R. Madhava Menon#[ii]	Public Affairs	Kerala
2020	Manohar Parrikar#[iii]	Public Affairs	Goa
2020	Jagdish Sheth*	Literature & Education	United States
2020	P. V. Sindhu	Sports	Telangana
2020	Venu Srinivasan	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2020	Sumitra Mahajan	Public Affairs	Madhya Pradesh
2021	K. S. Chithra	Arts	Kerala
2021	Tarun Gogoi#[iv]	Public Affairs	Assam
2021	Chandrashekhara Kambara	Literature & Education	Karnataka
2021	Nripendra Misra	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh
2021	Ram Vilas Paswan#[v]	Public Affairs	Bihar
2021	Keshubhai Patel#[vi]	Public Affairs	Gujarat
2021	Kalbe Sadiq#[vii]	Others	Uttar Pradesh
2021	Rajnikant Shroff	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2021	Tarlochan Singh	Public Affairs	Haryana
2022	Ghulam Nabi Azad	Public Affairs	Jammu and Kashmir
2022	Gurmeet Bawa#[viii]	Arts	Punjab
2022	Natarajan Chandrasekaran	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2022	Madhur Jaffrey*	Others	United States
2022	Devendra Jhajharia	Sports	Rajasthan
2022	Rashid Khan	Arts	Uttar Pradesh
2022	Rajiv Mehrishi	Civil Service	Rajasthan
2022	Satya Nadella*	Trade & Industry	United States
2022	Sundar Pichai*	Trade & Industry	United States
2022	Cyrus S. Poonawalla	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2022	Sanjaya Rajaram*#[ix]	Science & Engineering	Mexico
2022	Pratibha Ray	Literature & Education	Odisha
2022	Swami Sachchidanand	Literature & Education	Gujarat
2022	Vashishth Tripathi	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
2022	Krishna Ella	Trade & Industry	Telangana
	Suchitra Ella
2022	Victor Banerjee	Arts	West Bengal
2023	S. L. Bhyrappa	Literature & Education	Karnataka
2023	Kumar Mangalam Birla	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2023	Deepak Dhar	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
2023	Vani Jairam	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2023	Chinna Jeeyar	Others	Telangana
2023	Suman Kalyanpur	Arts	Maharashtra
2023	Kapil Kapoor	Literature & Education	Delhi
2023	Sudha Murthy	Social Work	Karnataka
2023	Kamlesh Patel	Others	Telangana
2024	Fathima Beevi#[x]	Public Affairs	Kerala
2024	Hormusji N. Cama	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
2024	Mithun Chakraborty	Arts	West Bengal
2024	Sitaram Jindal	Trade & Industry	Karnataka
2024	Young Liu*	Trade & Industry	Taiwan
2024	Ashwin Balachand Mehta	Medicine	Maharashtra
2024	Satyabrata Mookherjee#[xi]	Public Affairs	West Bengal
2024	Ram Naik	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
2024	Tejas Patel	Medicine	Gujarat
2024	O. Rajagopal	Public Affairs	Kerala
2024	Rajdutt	Arts	Maharashtra
2024	Togdan Rinpoche#[xii]	Others	Ladakh
2024	Pyarelal Sharma	Arts	Maharashtra
2024	C. P. Thakur	Medicine	Bihar
2024	Usha Uthup	Arts	West Bengal
2024	Vijayakant#[xiii]	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2024	Kundan Vyas	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
2025	A. Surya Prakash	Literature & Education	Karnataka
2025	Anant Nag	Arts	Karnataka
2025	Bibek Debroy#[xiv]	Literature & Education	Delhi
2025	Jatin Goswami	Arts	Assam
2025	Jose Chacko Periappuram	Medicine	Kerala
2025	Kailash Nath Dikshit	Others	Delhi
2025	Manohar Joshi#[xv]	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
2025	Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
2025	Nandamuri Balakrishna	Arts	Andhra Pradesh
2025	P. R. Sreejesh	Sports	Kerala
2025	Pankaj Patel	Trade & Industry	Gujarat
2025	Pankaj Udhas#[xvi]	Arts	Maharashtra
2025	Ram Bahadur Rai	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
2025	Sadhvi Rithambara	Social Work	Uttar Pradesh
2025	Ajith Kumar	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2025	Shekhar Kapur	Arts	Maharashtra
2025	Shobana	Arts	Tamil Nadu
2025	Sushil Kumar Modi#[xvii]	Public Affairs	Bihar
2025	Vinod Dham*	Science & Engineering	United States

Explanatory notes

1. The order of precedence is: Bharat Ratna, Param Vir Chakra, Ashoka Chakra, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan.^[5]

Posthumous recipients

1. Syed Muazzem Ali died on 30 December 2019, at the age of 75.^[7]
2. N. R. Madhava Menon died on 8 May 2019, at the age of 84.^[8]
3. Manohar Parrikar died on 17 March 2019, at the age of 63.^[9]
4. Tarun Gogoi died on 23 November 2020, at the age of 84.
5. Ram Vilas Paswan died on 8 October 2020, at the age of 74.
6. Keshubhai Patel died on 29 October 2020, at the age of 90.
7. Kalbe Sadiq died on 24 November 2020, at the age of 82.
8. Gurmeet Bawa died on 21 November 2021, at the age of 77.
9. Sanjaya Rajaram died on 17 February 2021, at the age of 78.
10. Fathima Beevi died on 23 November 2023, at the age of 96.
11. Satyabrata Mookherjee died on 3 March 2023, at the age of 90.
12. Togdan Rinpoche died on 24 May 2023, at the age of 85.
13. Vijayakant died on 28 December 2023, at the age of 71.
14. Bibek Debroy died on 1 November 2024, at the age of 69.
15. Manohar Joshi died on 23 February 2024, at the age of 86.
16. Pankaj Udhas died on 26 February 2024, at the age of 72.
17. Sushil Kumar Modi died on 13 May 2024, at the age of 72.

References

1. "PV Sindhu recommended for Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, by sports ministry". Firstpost. 25 September 2017. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
2. Lal, Shavax A. (1954). "The Gazette of India—Extraordinary—Part I" (PDF). The Gazette of India. The President's Secretariat (published 2 January 1954): 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2018. The President is pleased to institute an award to be designated 'Padma Vibhushan' in three classes, namely: 'Pahela Varg', 'Dusra Varg' and 'Tisra Varg'
3. "Padma Awards Scheme" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs (India). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
4. Ayyar, N. M. (1955). "The Gazette of India—Extraordinary—Part I" (PDF). The Gazette of India. The President's Secretariat (published 15 January 1955): 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2018. All persons upon whom the decoration of 'Padma Vibhushan' ('Dusra Varg') was conferred under the Regulations issued with Notification No. 2-Pres./54, dated the 2nd January, 1954, shall, for all purposes of these regulations, be deemed to be persons on whom the decoration of Padma Bhushan has been conferred by the President.
5. "Wearing of Medals: Precedence Of Medals". Indian Army. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
6. "Padma Awards: 2020" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs (India). 25 January 2020. p. 1. Retrieved 25 January 2020.

   • "Padma Awards: 2021" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs (India). 25 January 2021. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
   • "Padma Awards: 2022" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs (India). 25 January 2022. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
   • "Padma Awards: 2023" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs (India). 25 January 2023. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
   • "Padma Awards: 2024" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs (India). 25 January 2024. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
   • "Padma Awards: 2025" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs (India). 25 January 2025. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
7. "Ex-Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Muazzem Ali passes away". The Daily Star. 30 December 2019. Archived from the original on 31 December 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
8. "NR Madhava Menon, Indian legal educator, passes away at 84". The Indian Express. 8 May 2019. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
9. Kamat, Prakash (17 March 2019). "President Ram Nath Kovind announces death of Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 7 September 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2019.

External links

• Official website
• "Awards & Medals". Ministry of Home Affairs (India).