On 28 April 2025, at the first Civil Investiture Ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, President Droupadi Murmu conferred Padma Awards 2025 on 71 eminent personalities. The awards included 4 Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Bhushan, and 57 Padma Shri recipients.
Among the Padma Vibhushan awardees:
- D. Nageshwar Reddy (Medicine)
- Dr. Lakshminarayana Subramaniam (Art)
- M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Posthumously)
- Osamu Suzuki (Posthumously)
Prominent Padma Bhushan recipients included:
- Nandamuri Balakrishna (Cinema)
- Shekhar Kapur (Cinema)
- Sreejesh P. R. (Sports – Hockey)
- Sushil Kumar Modi (Posthumously, Public Affairs)
Notable Padma Shri awardees:
- Ravichandran Ashwin (Cricket)
- Arundhati Bhattacharya (Public Affairs, for expanding the Jan Dhan scheme)
- Stephen Knapp (Literature and Education)
- Ronu Majumdar (Art – Music)
- Dr. K. Omankutty Amma (Art – Carnatic Music)
The event was attended by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers including Amit Shah, and other dignitaries.
The Padma Awards honor achievements in fields like art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, and civil service.
