Padma Awards 2024: Padma Vibhushan For Venkaiah Naidu, Chiranjeevi; Mithun Chakraborty To Get Padma Bhushan

On the eve of the 75th Republic Day celebrations, the government unveiled the prestigious Padma Awards today. The Padma Vibhushan has been conferred upon Vyjayantimala Bali, Konidela Chiranjeevi, M Venkaiah Naidu, Bindeshwar Pathak (posthumous), and Padma Subrahmanyam. Among the 17 recipients of the Padma Bhushan are BJP leader Ram Naik, singer Usha Uthup, and the late actor Vijaykanth. The President approved 110 Padma Shri awardees this year, out of which, 30 awardees are women.

The statement released by the Ministry of Home Affairs mentioned names of late Chief Justice M Fathima Beevi, the first woman judge of the Supreme Court, along with actor Mithun Chakraborty and Bombay Samachar owner Hormusji N Cama, are among the recipients of the Padma Bhushan award.

CEO of Taiwan's Foxconn, Young Liu, has also been honored with Padma Bhushan.

Here's the List of Padma Award Winners 2024:

Padma Vibhushan (5)

Ms. Vyjayantimala Bali
Shri Konidela Chiranjeevi
Shri M Venkaiah Naidu
Shri Bindeshwar Pathak (Posthumous)
Ms. Padma Subrahmanya

Padma Bhushan (17)

Ms. M Fathima Beevi (Posthumous)
Shri Hormusji N Cama
Shri Mithun Chakraborty
Shri Sitaram Jindal
Shri Young Liu
Shri Ashwin Balachand Mehta
Shri Satyabrata Mookherjee (Posthumous)
Shri Ram Naik
Shri Tejas Madhusudan Patel
Shri Olanchery Rajagopal
Shri Dattatray Ambadas Mayaloo alias Rajdutt
Shri Togdan Rinpoche (Posthumous)
Shri Pyarelal Sharma
Shri Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur
Ms. Usha Uthup
Shri Vijaykanth (Posthumous)
Shri Kundan Vyas

Padma Shri (110)

Shri Khalil Ahamad
Shri Badrappan M
Shri Kaluram Bamaniya
Ms. Rezwana Choudhury Bannya
Ms. Naseem Bano
Shri Ramlal Bareth
Ms. Gita Roy Barman
Ms. Parbati Baruah
Shri Sarbeswar Basumatary
Shri Som Datt Battu
Ms. Takdira Begum
Shri Sathyanarayana Beleri
Shri Drona Bhuyan
Shri Ashok Kumar Biswas
Shri Rohan Machanda Bopanna
Ms. Smriti Rekha Chakma
Shri Narayan Chakraborty
Shri A Velu Ananda Chari
Shri Ram Chet Chaudhary
Ms. K Chellammal
Ms. Joshna Chinappa
Ms. Charlotte Chopin
Shri Raghuveer Choudhary
Shri Joe D Cruz
Shri Ghulam Nabi Dar
Shri Chitta Ranjan Debbarma
Shri Uday Vishwanath Deshpande
Ms. Prema Dhanraj
Shri Radha Krishan Dhiman
Shri Manohar Krishana Dole
Shri Pierre Sylvain Filliozat
Shri Mahabir Singh Guddu
Ms. Anupama Hoskere
Shri Yazdi Maneksha Italia
Shri Rajaram Jain
Shri Jankilal
Shri Ratan Kahar
Shri Yashwant Singh Kathoch
Shri Zahir I Kazi
Shri Gaurav Khanna
Shri Surendra Kishore
Shri Dasari Kondappa
Shri Sridhar Makam Krishnamurthy
Ms. Yanung Jamoh Lego
Shri Jordan Lepcha
Shri Satendra Singh Lohia
Shri Binod Maharana
Ms. Purnima Mahato
Ms. Uma Maheshwari D
Andhra Pradesh
Shri Dukhu Majhi
Shri Ram Kumar Mallick
Shri Hemchand Manjhi
Shri Chandrashekhar Mahadeorao Meshram
Shri Surendra Mohan Mishra (Posthumous)
Shri Ali Mohammed & Shri Ghani Mohammed* (Duo)
Ms. Kalpana Morparia
Ms. Chami Murmu
Shri Sasindran Muthuvel
Papua New Guinea
Ms. Kiran Nadar
Shri Pakaravur Chithran Namboodiripad (Posthumous)
Shri Narayanan E P
Shri Shailesh Nayak
Shri Harish Nayak (Posthumous)
Shri Fred Negrit
Shri Hari Om
Shri Bhagabat Padhan
Shri Sanatan Rudra Pal
Shri Shankar Baba Pundlikrao Papalkar
Shri Radhe Shyam Pareek
Shri Dayal Mavjibhai Parmar
Shri Binod Kumar Pasayat
Ms. Silbi Passah
Ms. Shanti Devi Paswan & Shri Shivan Paswan* (Duo)
Shri Sanjay Anant Patil
Shri Muni Narayana Prasad
Shri K S Rajanna
Shri Chandrashekar Channapatna Rajannachar
Shri Bhagwatilal Rajpurohit
Shri Romalo Ram
Shri Navjivan Rastogi
Ms. Nirmal Rishi
Shri Pran Sabharwal
Shri Gaddam Sammaiah
Shri Sangthankima
Shri Machihan Sasa
Shri Omprakash Sharma
Shri Eklabya Sharma
Shri Ram Chander Sihag
Shri Harbinder Singh
Shri Gurvinder Singh
Shri Godawari Singh
Shri Ravi Prakash Singh
Shri Seshampatti T Sivalingam
Shri Somanna
Shri Kethavath Somlal
Ms. Shashi Soni
Ms. Urmila Srivastava
Shri Nepal Chandra Sutradhar (Posthumous)
Shri Gopinath Swain
Shri Laxman Bhatt Tailang
Ms. Maya Tandon
Ms. Aswathi Thirunal Gouri Lakshmi Bayi Thampuratty
Shri Jagdish Labhshanker Trivedi
Ms. Sano Vamuzo
Shri Balakrishnan Sadanam Puthiya Veetil
Shri Kurella Vittalacharya
Shri Kiran Vyas
Shri Jageshwar Yadav
Shri Babu Ram Yadav

Soon after the announcement of the Padma Awards, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in a post on the micro-blogging site X, said, "I extend my warmest congratulations to the change makers of our society who have been selected for the Padma Awards for their distinguished contributions to different fields. PM Shri Narendra Modi Ji has rationalized the Padma Awards ceremony to make it a platform to appreciate individuals setting pioneering examples for social change. The individuals conferred with the Padma Awards have not only created brilliant examples for others to follow but also have elevated the pride of the nation with their service."