The recipients of the Padma Shri award, the nation's second-highest civilian honour, was announced on the eve of India's 75th Republic Day.
The list announced on Thursday, 25 January, also comprises the recipients of five Padma Vibhushan and 17 Padma Bhushan awardees,
The Padma Awards were conferred upon distinguished individuals as a mark of recognition of their exceptional contributions in various fields including medicine, art, and social work, among others.
First female elephant mahout Parbati Baruah, burn victim-turned-burn surgeon Prema Dhanraj, tribal environmentalist Chami Murmu, and sculptor Sanatan Rudra Pal are among the recipients of the Padma Shri award for 2024.
Earlier this week, the central government had announced that the Bharat Ratna would be awarded posthumously to socialist icon and former Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur.
Here is the full list of winners.
Padma Vibhushan
Ms Vyjayantimala Bali (Art) - Tamil Nadu
Shri Konidela Chiranjeevi (Art) - Andhra Pradesh
Shri M Venkaiah Naidu (Public Affairs) - Andhra Pradesh
Shri Bindeshwar Pathak (Social Work) - Bihar
Ms Padma Subrahmanyam (Art) - Tamil Nadu
Padma Bhushan
Ms M Fathima Beevi (Public Affairs) - Kerala
Shri Hormusji N Cama (Literature & Education) - Maharashtra
Shri Mithun Chakraborty (Art) - West Bengal
Shri Sitaram Jindal (Trade & Industry) - Karnataka
Shri Young Liu (Trade & Industry) - Taiwan
Shri Ashwin Balachand Mehta (Medicine) - Maharashtra
Shri Satyabrata Mookherjee (Public Affairs) - West Bengal
Shri Ram Naik (Public Affairs) - Maharashtra
Shri Tejas Madhusudan Patel (Medicine) - Gujarat
Shri Olanchery Rajagopal (Public Affairs) - Kerala
Shri Dattatray Ambadas Mayaloo alias Rajdutt (Art) - Maharashtra
Shri Togdan Rinpoche (Others - Spiritualism) - Ladakh
Shri Pyarelal Sharma (Art) - Maharashtra
Shri Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur (Medicine) - Bihar
Ms Usha Uthup (Art) - West Bengal
Shri Vijaykanth (Art) - Tamil Nadu
Shri Kundan Vyas (Literature & Education - Journalism) - Maharashtra
Padma Shri
Shri Khalil Ahamad (Art) – Uttar Pradesh
Shri Badrappan M (Art) – Tamil Nadu
Shri Kaluram Bamaniya (Art) – Madhya Pradesh
Ms. Rezwana Choudhury Bannya (Art) – Bangladesh
Ms. Naseem Bano (Art) – Uttar Pradesh
Shri Ramlal Bareth (Art) – Chhattisgarh
Ms. Gita Roy Barman (Art) – West Bengal
Ms. Parbati Baruah (Social Work) – Assam
Shri Sarbeswar Basumatary (Others - Agriculture) – Assam
Shri Som Datt Battu (Art) – Himachal Pradesh
Ms. Takdira Begum (Art) – West Bengal
Shri Sathyanarayana Beleri (Others - Agriculture) – Kerala
Shri Drona Bhuyan (Art) – Assam
Shri Ashok Kumar Biswas (Art) – Bihar
Shri Rohan Machanda Bopanna (Sports) – Karnataka
Ms. Smriti Rekha Chakma (Art) – Tripura
Shri Narayan Chakraborty (Science & Engineering) – West Bengal
Shri A Velu Ananda Chari (Art) – Telangana
Shri Ram Chet Chaudhary (Science & Engineering) – Uttar Pradesh
Ms. K Chellammal (Others - Agriculture) – Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Ms. Joshna Chinappa (Sports) – Tamil Nadu
Ms. Charlotte Chopin (Others - Yoga) – France
Shri Raghuveer Choudhary (Literature & Education) – Gujarat
Shri Joe D Cruz (Literature & Education) – Tamil Nadu
Shri Ghulam Nabi Dar (Art) – Jammu & Kashmir
Shri Chitta Ranjan Debbarma (Others - Spiritualism) – Tripura
Shri Uday Vishwanath Deshpande (Sports) – Maharashtra
Ms. Prema Dhanraj (Medicine) – Karnataka
Shri Radha Krishan Dhiman (Medicine) – Uttar Pradesh
Shri Manohar Krishana Dole (Medicine) – Maharashtra
Shri Pierre Sylvain Filliozat (Literature & Education) – France
Shri Mahabir Singh Guddu (Art) – Haryana
Ms. Anupama Hoskere (Art) – Karnataka
Shri Yazdi Maneksha Italia (Medicine) – Gujarat
Shri Rajaram Jain (Literature & Education) – Uttar Pradesh
Shri Jankilal (Art) – Rajasthan
Shri Ratan Kahar (Art) – West Bengal
Shri Yashwant Singh Kathoch (Literature & Education) – Uttarakhand
Shri Zahir I Kazi (Literature & Education) – Maharashtra
Shri Gaurav Khanna (Sports) – Uttar Pradesh
Shri Surendra Kishore (Literature & Education - Journalism) – Bihar
Shri Dasari Kondappa (Art) – Telangana
Shri Sridhar Makam Krishnamurthy (Literature & Education) – Karnataka
Ms. Yanung Jamoh Lego (Others - Agriculture) – Arunachal Pradesh
Shri Jordan Lepcha (Art) – Sikkim
Shri Satendra Singh Lohia (Sports) – Madhya Pradesh
Shri Binod Maharana (Art) – Odisha
Ms. Purnima Mahato (Sports) – Jharkhand
Ms. Uma Maheshwari D (Art) – Andhra Pradesh
Shri Dukhu Majhi (Social Work) – West Bengal
Shri Ram Kumar Mallick (Art) – Bihar
Shri Hemchand Manjhi (Medicine) – Chhattisgarh
Shri Chandrashekhar Mahadeorao Meshram (Medicine) – Maharashtra
Shri Surendra Mohan Mishra (Posthumous) (Art) – Uttar Pradesh
Shri Ali Mohammed & Shri Ghani Mohammed (Duo) (Art) – Rajasthan
Ms. Kalpana Morparia (Trade & Industry) – Maharashtra
Ms. Chami Murmu (Social Work) – Jharkhand
Shri Sasindran Muthuvel (Public Affairs) – Papua New Guinea
Ms. G Nachiyar (Medicine) – Tamil Nadu
Ms. Kiran Nadar (Art) – Delhi
Shri Pakaravur Chithran Namboodiripad (Posthumous) (Literature & Education) – Kerala
Shri Narayanan E P (Art) – Kerala
Shri Shailesh Nayak (Science & Engineering) – Delhi
Shri Harish Nayak (Posthumous) (Literature & Education) – Gujarat
Shri Fred Negrit (Literature & Education) – France
Shri Hari Om (Science & Engineering) – Haryana
Shri Bhagabat Padhan (Art) – Odisha
Shri Sanatan Rudra Pal (Art) – West Bengal
Shri Shankar Baba Pundlikrao Papalkar (Social Work) – Maharashtra
Shri Radhe Shyam Pareek (Medicine) – Uttar Pradesh
Shri Dayal Mavjibhai Parmar (Medicine) – Gujarat
Shri Binod Kumar Pasayat (Art) – Odisha
Ms. Silbi Passah (Art) – Meghalaya
Ms. Shanti Devi Paswan & Shri Shivan Paswan (Duo) (Art) – Bihar
Shri Sanjay Anant Patil (Others - Agriculture) – Goa
Shri Muni Narayana Prasad (Literature & Education) – Kerala
Shri K S Rajanna (Social Work) – Karnataka
Shri Chandrashekar Channapatna Rajannachar (Medicine) – Karnataka
Shri Bhagwatilal Rajpurohit (Literature & Education) – Madhya Pradesh
Shri Romalo Ram (Art) – Jammu & Kashmir
Shri Navjivan Rastogi (Literature & Education) – Uttar Pradesh
Ms. Nirmal Rishi (Art) – Punjab
Shri Pran Sabharwal (Art) – Punjab
Shri Gaddam Sammaiah (Art) – Telangana
Shri Sangthankima (Social Work) – Mizoram
Shri Machihan Sasa (Art) – Manipur
Shri Omprakash Sharma (Art) – Madhya Pradesh
Shri Eklabya Sharma (Science & Engineering) – West Bengal
Shri Ram Chander Sihag (Science & Engineering) – Haryana
Shri Harbinder Singh (Sports) – Delhi
Shri Gurvinder Singh (Social Work) – Haryana
Shri Godawari Singh (Art) – Uttar Pradesh
Shri Ravi Prakash Singh (Science & Engineering) – Mexico
Shri Seshampatti T Sivalingam (Art) – Tamil Nadu
Shri Somanna (Social Work) – Karnataka
Shri Kethavath Somlal (Literature & Education) – Telangana
Ms. Shashi Soni (Trade & Industry) – Karnataka
Ms. Urmila Srivastava (Art) – Uttar Pradesh
Shri Nepal Chandra Sutradhar (Posthumous) (Art) – West Bengal
Shri Gopinath Swain (Art) – Odisha
Shri Laxman Bhatt Tailang (Art) – Rajasthan
Ms. Maya Tandon (Social Work) – Rajasthan
Ms. Aswathi Thirunal Gouri Lakshmi Bayi Thampuratty (Literature & Education) – Kerala
Shri Jagdish Labhshanker Trivedi (Art) – Gujarat
Ms. Sano Vamuzo (Social Work) – Nagaland
Shri Balakrishnan Sadanam Puthiya Veetil (Art) – Kerala
Shri Kurella Vittalacharya (Literature & Education) – Telangana
Shri Kiran Vyas (Others - Yoga) – France
Shri Jageshwar Yadav (Social Work) – Chhattisgarh
Shri Babu Ram Yadav (Art) – Uttar Pradesh