List of Padma Shri award recipients in public affairs

This is a list of recipients of the Padma Shri award, the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, in the field of Civil Service. As of 2025, a total of 70 individuals have been awarded Padma Shri for their contributions in the field of Public Affairs.[1]

Recipients

1950-1959
Year Name State Field
1954 Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan Tamil Nadu Public Affairs
1954 Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Tamil Nadu Public Affairs
1954 Zakir Husain Telangana Public Affairs
1954 Bal Gangadhar Kher Maharashtra Public Affairs
1954 HH Maharaja Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Jigme Dorji Wangchuk Bhutan Public Affairs
1954 Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon Kerala Public Affairs
1954 Lt. Col Maharaj Kumar Palden Thondup Namgyal Sikkim Public Affairs
1954 Vaikunth Lallubhai Mehta Gujarat Public Affairs
1954 Kum. Amalaprava Das Assam Public Affairs
1954 Machani Somappa Andhra Pradesh Public Affairs
1954 Achamma Mathai Maharashtra Public Affairs
1954 Asha Devi Aryanayakam Maharashtra Public Affairs
1954 Mrinmayi Ray Andhra Pradesh Public Affairs
1954 Perin Captian Maharashtra Public Affairs
1955 Jawaharlal Nehru Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
1956 Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi Madhya Pradesh Public Affairs
1956 Saiyid Fazl Ali Bihar Public Affairs
1956 Nawab Zain Yar Jung Telangana Public Affairs
1956 Pushpavati Janardanrai Mehta Maharashtra Public Affairs
1957 Govind Ballabh Pant Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
1957 Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad Maharashtra Public Affairs
1957 Sri Prakasa Andhra Pradesh Public Affairs
1957 Radha Kumud Mookerji West Bengal Public Affairs
1957 Lakshmi N Menon Kerala Public Affairs
1957 Major Ralengnao Khathing Manipur Public Affairs
1958 Moturi Satyanarayana Tamil Nadu Public Affairs
1959 Radha Binode Pal West Bengal Public Affairs
1959 Prataprai Girdharilal Mehta Maharashtra Public Affairs
1960-1969
Year Name State Field
1960 Narayana Raghavan Pillai Tamil Nadu Public Affairs
1960 Nilakantha Das Odisha Public Affairs
1960 Ayyadevara Kaleswara Rao Andhra Pradesh Public Affairs
1960 Rustom Merwanji Alpaiwala Maharashtra Public Affairs
1961 Bidhan Chandra Roy West Bengal Public Affairs
1961 Purushottam Das Tandon Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
1961 Vindhyeshwari Prasad Varma Bihar Public Affairs
1962 Rajendra Prasad Bihar Public Affairs
1962 Padmaja Naidu Telangana Public Affairs
1962 Moturi Satyanarayana Tamil Nadu Public Affairs
1962 Sudhindra Nath Mukerjee West Bengal Public Affairs
1962 Mithan J. Lam Maharashtra Public Affairs
1963 Zakir Husain Telangana Public Affairs
1963 Hari Vinayak Pataskar Maharashtra Public Affairs
1963 R. G. Saraiya Maharashtra Public Affairs
1964 Pandit Kunji Lal Dubey Madhya Pradesh Public Affairs
1964 Nur-ud-din Ahmed Delhi Public Affairs
1965 Mehdi Nawaz Jung Telangana Public Affairs
1965 Capt. H H Raja Shrimant Chintamanrao Dhundirao Alias Appasaheb Patwardhan Maharashtra Public Affairs
1965 Mir Akbar Ali Khan Andhra Pradesh Public Affairs
1965 Krishnaswami Ayyar Balasubramania Ayyar Tamil Nadu Public Affairs
1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumously) Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
1966 Kizhkke Potte Kesava Menon Kerala Public Affairs
1966 Tiruvarur Swaminathier Ramaswami Aiyar Tamil Nadu Public Affairs
1967 Chandra Kisan Daphtary Maharashtra Public Affairs
1967 Kaikhushru Ruttonji Pestonji Shroff Maharashtra Public Affairs
1967 Kashi Prasad Pande Madhya Pradesh Public Affairs
1967 Lal Chand Verman Delhi Public Affairs
1968 Madhav Shrihari Aney Madhya Pradesh Public Affairs
1968 Kuthur Vaidyanatha Kalyana Sundaram Delhi Public Affairs
1968 Mansukhlal Atmaram Master Maharashtra Public Affairs
1970-1979
Year Name State Field
1970 Anthony Lancelot Dias Maharashtra Public Affairs
1970 Bhagwant Rao Annabhau Mandloi Madhya Pradesh Public Affairs
1970 Hans Raj Gupta Haryana Public Affairs
1971 Indira Gandhi Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
1971 Bimal Prasad Chaliha Assam Public Affairs
1971 Bhai Mohan Singh Delhi Public Affairs
1971 Ram Lal Mehta Delhi Public Affairs
1972 Aditya Nath Jha (Posthumous) Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
1972 Jivraj Narain Mehta Maharashtra Public Affairs
1972 Prahlad Balacharya Gajendragadkar Maharashtra Public Affairs
1972 Ghulam Mohd. Sadiq (Posthumous) Jammu and Kashmir Public Affairs
1972 Gopaliah Subbukrishna Melkote Odisha Public Affairs
1973 Nagendra Singh Rajasthan Public Affairs
1973 Ijwant Singh Delhi Public Affairs
1974 Niren De West Bengal Public Affairs
1975 Varahagiri Venkata Giri Odisha Public Affairs
1975 Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh Andhra Pradesh Public Affairs
1975 Dr.(Smt.) Durgabai Deshmukh Maharashtra Public Affairs
1976 Kumaraswamy Kamraj (Posthumous) Tamil Nadu Public Affairs
1977 Ajudhia Nath Khosla Delhi Public Affairs
1977 Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee West Bengal Public Affairs
1977 Ali Yavar Jung Bahadur (Posthumous) Telangana Public Affairs
1977 Chandreshwar Prasad Narayan Singh Delhi Public Affairs
1977 Baba Prithvi Singh Azad Chandigarh Public Affairs
1977 Telo De Mascarenhas Germany Public Affairs
1980-1989
Year Name State Field
1985 (Justice) Durga Das Basu West Bengal Public Affairs
1985 Syed (Justice) Sadat Abdul Masud West Bengal Public Affairs
1986 Jean Riboud (Posthumous) France Public Affairs
1986 Martand Singh Delhi Public Affairs
1988 Manidur Gopalan Ramachandran (posthumous) Tamil Nadu Public Affairs
1988 Justice Mirza Hameedullah Beg Delhi Public Affairs
1988 Kushok Bakula Delhi Public Affairs
1988 Renuka Ray West Bengal Public Affairs
1988 Valmiki Choudhary Delhi Public Affairs
1989 Umashankar Dikshit Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
1989 Lord Fenner Brockway (Posthumous) United Kingdom Public Affairs
1989 Lakshman Singh Maharashtra Public Affairs
1989 Yoshio Sakurauchi Japan Public Affairs
1990-1999
Year Name State Field
1990 Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Posthumous) Maharashtra Public Affairs
1990 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela South Africa Public Affairs
1990 Triloki Nath Chaturvedi Delhi Public Affairs
1990 Julius Silverman United Kingdom Public Affairs
1990 Ram Narain Malhotra Maharashtra Public Affairs
1991 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) Gujarat Public Affairs
1991 Morarji Ranchhodji Desai Gujarat Public Affairs
1991 Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) Delhi Public Affairs
1991 Hirendra Nath Mukherjee West Bengal Public Affairs
1991 Nayakulu Gogineni Ranga Andhra Pradesh Public Affairs
1991 Gulzari Lal Nanda Gujarat Public Affairs
1991 Fali Sam Nariman Delhi Public Affairs
1991 Jeevan Singh Umranangal Punjab Public Affairs
1991 Manubhai Rajaram Panoholi Gujarat Public Affairs
1991 Babulal Chhogalal Pataudi Madhya Pradesh Public Affairs
1991 Hari Govindrao alias Bhausaheb Vartak Maharashtra Public Affairs
1992 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous) West Bengal Public Affairs
1992 Sardar Swaran Singh Punjab Public Affairs
1992 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Delhi Public Affairs
1992 Ravi Narayan Reddy (Posthumous) Telangana Public Affairs
1992 Aruna Asaf Ali Delhi Public Affairs
1992 Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati Assam Public Affairs
1992 Vavilala Gopalakrishnayya Andhra Pradesh Public Affairs
1992 Homijehangir Hormusji Taleyarkhan Maharashtra Public Affairs
1992 Maadari Bhagya Gautam Telangana Public Affairs
1992 Vaman Balkrishna Naique Prataprao Sardesai Goa Public Affairs
1997 Gulzari Lal Nanda (Posthumous) Gujarat Public Affairs
1997 Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous) Delhi Public Affairs
1998 Chidambaram Subramaniam Tamil Nadu Public Affairs
1998 (Smt.) Lakshmi Sahgal Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
1998 Nani Ardeshir Palkhivala Maharashtra Public Affairs
1998 Walter Sisulu South Africa Public Affairs
1998 Col. Gurbakhsh Singh Dhillon Madhya Pradesh Public Affairs
1998 Laxmi Mall Singhvi Delhi Public Affairs
1998 Justice (Shri) Vithal Mahadev Tarkunde Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
1998 Satyapal Dang Punjab Public Affairs
1998 Late Shri Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous) Bihar Public Affairs
1999 Late Shri Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous) Assam Public Affairs
1999 Justice Hans Raj Khanna (Retd.) Delhi Public Affairs
1999 Justice Vaidynathapuram Rama Ayyar Krishna Iyer (Retd.) Kerala Public Affairs
1999 Braj Kumar Nehru Himachal Pradesh Public Affairs
1999 Jag Parvesh Chandra Delhi Public Affairs
2000-2009
Year Name State Field
2000 Sikander Bakht Delhi Public Affairs
2000 Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Delhi Public Affairs
2000 Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy United States of America Public Affairs
2000 Satya Narayan Gourisaria United Kingdom Public Affairs
2001 Benjamin Arthur Gilman United States of America Public Affairs
2001 Hosei Norota Japan Public Affairs
2001 Ashok Haribhai Desai Delhi Public Affairs
2001 Swadesh Chatterjee United States of America Public Affairs
2001 Mohan Ranade Maharashtra Public Affairs
2002 Soli Jehangir Sorabjee Delhi Public Affairs
2002 Congressman Frank Pallone United States of America Public Affairs
2002 Congressman Gary Ackerman United States of America Public Affairs
2002 Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharya United Kingdom Public Affairs
2002 Kottayan Katankot Venugopal Delhi Public Affairs
2002 Satish Chandra Rai Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
2002 Phillips Talbot United States of America Public Affairs
2002 Taro Nakayama Japan Public Affairs
2002 Viresh Pratap Chaudhry Delhi Public Affairs
2003 Kazi Lhendup Dorji Kangsarpa West Bengal Public Affairs
2003 Herbert Paul Fischer Germany Public Affairs
2003 Parasaran Kesava Iyengar Delhi Public Affairs
2003 Francis Dore France Public Affairs
2003 Neelakanta Ramakrishna Madhava Menon West Bengal Public Affairs
2004 Justice (Retd) Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah Karnataka Public Affairs
2004 Justice (Retd.) Shri Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari Maharashtra Public Affairs
2004 Yoshiro Mori Japan Public Affairs
2004 Flora Isabel MacDonald Canada Public Affairs
2005 Karan Singh Delhi Public Affairs
2005 Milon Kumar Banerji Delhi Public Affairs
2005 Syed Mir Qasim (Posthumous) Delhi Public Affairs
2005 Indira Jaising Delhi Public Affairs
2006 Justice Visheshwar Nath Khare Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
2006 Hira Lall Sibal Chandigarh Public Affairs
2006 Pavani Parmeswara Rao Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
2006 Shashi Bhushan Delhi Public Affairs
2006 Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al Mahmoud Qatar Public Affairs
2007 Raja Jesudoss Chelliah Tamil Nadu Public Affairs
2007 Justice (Shri) Prafulla Chandra Bhagwati Delhi Public Affairs
2007 Fali Sam Nariman Delhi Public Affairs
2007 Justice (Shri) K.T. Thomas Kerala Public Affairs
2007 Ela Gandhi South Africa Public Affairs
2007 Dr.(Ms.) Syeda Saiyidain Hameed Delhi Public Affairs
2007 Teesta Setalvad Maharashtra Public Affairs
2008 Justice (Dr.) Adarsh Sein Anand Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
2008 P.N. Dhar Delhi Public Affairs
2008 Pranab Mukherjee Delhi Public Affairs
2008 Yuli M. Vorontsov (Posthumous) Russia Public Affairs
2008 Mian Bashir Ahmad Jammu and Kashmir Public Affairs
2008 Lord Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai United Kingdom Public Affairs
2008 Colette Mathur Switzerland Public Affairs
2009 Govind Narain Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
2009 (Smt.) Inderjit Kaur Barthakur Meghalaya Public Affairs
2009 Kirit Shantilal Parikh Delhi Public Affairs
2009 Shyamlha Pappu Delhi Public Affairs
2009 K. Asungba Sangtam Nagaland Public Affairs
2010-2019
Year Name State Field
2010 Yaga Venugopal Reddy Telangana Public Affairs
2010 Abhijit Sen Delhi Public Affairs
2010 Sailesh Kumar Bandyopadhyay West Bengal Public Affairs
2010 Sant Singh Chatwal United States of America Public Affairs
2010 Rafael Iruzubieta Fernandez Spain Public Affairs
2010 Gulam Mohammad Mir Jammu and Kashmir Public Affairs
2011 Akhlaq Ur Rahman Kidwai Delhi Public Affairs
2011 Vijay Laxman Kelkar Maharashtra Public Affairs
2011 K Parasaran Delhi Public Affairs
2011 Montek Singh Ahluwalia Delhi Public Affairs
2011 Prof.(Dr) Upendra Baxi United Kingdom Public Affairs
2011 Anant Darshan Shankar Karnataka Public Affairs
2012 Patibandla Chandrasekhara Rao Germany Public Affairs
2012 George Yong-Boon Yeo Singapore Public Affairs
2012 Pravin Harjivandas Parekh Delhi Public Affairs
2012 Yezdi Hirji Malegam Maharashtra Public Affairs
2013 Shivajirao Girdhar Patil Maharashtra Public Affairs
2014 Justice Dalveer Bhandari Netherlands Public Affairs
2014 Hasmukh Chimanlal Shah Gujarat Public Affairs
2014 Ashok Kumar Mago United States of America Public Affairs
2014 Tashi Tondup Jammu and Kashmir Public Affairs
2015 Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (Posthumous) Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
2015 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Delhi Public Affairs
2015 K.K. Venugopal Delhi Public Affairs
2015 Lal Kishinchand Advani Delhi Public Affairs
2015 Sardar Parkash Singh Badal Punjab Public Affairs
2015 Subhash C. Kashyap Delhi Public Affairs
2015 Harish Narendra Salve Delhi Public Affairs
2015 Saichiro Misumi Japan Public Affairs
2016 Jagmohan Delhi Public Affairs
2016 Ravindra Chandra Bhargava Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
2016 Robert Dean Blackwill United States of America Public Affairs
2016 M.N. Krishnamani Delhi Public Affairs
2016 Mahesh Chander Mehta Delhi Public Affairs
2016 Tokheho H. Sema Nagaland Public Affairs
2016 Ujjwal Deorao Nikam Maharashtra Public Affairs
2017 Purno Agitok Sangma (Posthumous) Meghalaya Public Affairs
2017 Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar Maharashtra Public Affairs
2017 Murli Manohar Joshi Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
2017 Sunder Lal Patwa (Posthumous) Madhya Pradesh Public Affairs
2018 His Excellency Alexander Kadakin (Posthumous) Russia Public Affairs
2018 Bhabani Charan Pattanaik Odisha Public Affairs
2018 Tommy Koh Singapore Public Affairs
2018 His Excellency Shri Hun Many Cambodia Public Affairs
2018 Thant Myint-U Myanmar Public Affairs
2019 Pranab Mukherjee Delhi Public Affairs
2019 His Excellency Shri Ismail Omar Guelleh Djibouti Public Affairs
2019 Sardar Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa Punjab Public Affairs
2019 Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan South Africa Public Affairs
2019 Kariya Munda Jharkhand Public Affairs
2019 Hukumdev Narayan Yadav Bihar Public Affairs
2019 Bhagirathi Devi Bihar Public Affairs
2019 Harvinder Singh Phoolka Punjab Public Affairs
2020-2029
Year Name State Field
2020 George Fernandes (Posthumous) Delhi Public Affairs
2020 Arun Jaitley (Posthumous) Delhi Public Affairs
2020 Sir Anerood Jugnauth Mauritius Public Affairs
2020 Sushma Swaraj (Posthumous) Delhi Public Affairs
2020 Syed Muazzem Ali (Posthumous) Bangladesh Public Affairs
2020 Muzaffar Hussain Baig Jammu and Kashmir Public Affairs
2020 S. C. Jamir Nagaland Public Affairs
2020 Neelakanta Ramakrishna Madhava Menon (Posthumous) Kerala Public Affairs
2020 Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar (Posthumous) Goa Public Affairs
2020 Robert John Blackman United Kingdom Public Affairs
2020 Barry Strachan Gardiner United Kingdom Public Affairs
2021 Shinzo Abe Japan Public Affairs
2021 Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous) Assam Public Affairs
2021 Sumitra Mahajan Madhya Pradesh Public Affairs
2021 Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous) Bihar Public Affairs
2021 Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous) Gujarat Public Affairs
2021 Sardar Tarlochan Singh Haryana Public Affairs
2021 Bijoya Chakravorty Assam Public Affairs
2021 Lt. Col. Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir (Retd.) Bir Protik Swadhinata Padak Bangladesh Public Affairs
2022 Kalyan Singh (Posthumous) Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
2022 Ghulam Nabi Azad Jammu and Kashmir Public Affairs
2022 Maljibhai Devjibhai Desai Gujarat Public Affairs
2023 Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna Karnataka Public Affairs
2023 Mulayam Singh Yadav (Posthumous) Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
2023 Narendra Chandra Debbarma (Posthumous) Tripura Public Affairs
2023 Thounaojam Chaoba Singh Manipur Public Affairs
2024 Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu Andhra Pradesh Public Affairs
2024 Justice Ms. M. Fathima Beevi (Posthumous) Kerala Public Affairs
2024 Satya Brata Mookherjee (Posthumous) West Bengal Public Affairs
2024 Ram Naik Maharashtra Public Affairs
2024 O. Rajagopal Kerala Public Affairs
2024 Sasindran Muthuvel Papua New Guinea Public Affairs
2024 P. V. Narasimha Rao (Posthumous) Telangana Public Affairs
2024 Chaudhary Charan Singh (Posthumous) Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs
2024 Karpoori Thakur (Posthumous) Bihar Public Affairs
2024 Lal Kishinchand Advani Delhi Public Affairs
2025 Justice (Retd.) Shri Jagdish Singh Khehar Chandigarh Public Affairs
2025 Manohar Joshi (Posthumous) Maharashtra Public Affairs
2025 Sushil Kumar Modi (Posthumous) Bihar Public Affairs
2025 C S Vaidyanathan Delhi Public Affairs
2025 Manda Krishna Madiga Telangana Public Affairs
2025 Narayan (Bhulai Bhai) (Posthumous) Uttar Pradesh Public Affairs

References

  1. ^ "Padma Awards Dashboard". padmaawards.gov.in. Ministry of Home Affairs (Govt. of India). Retrieved 31 July 2025.
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