Padma Awards, the country's highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The awards are given in all disciplines/ fields of activities, viz. art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. 'Padma Vibhushan' is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; 'Padma Bhushan' for distinguished service of high order and 'Padma Shri' for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.
The awards are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan sometime around March/ April. This year the President has approved 130 awards including 13 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs. These comprise 6 Padma Vibhushan, 43 Padma Bhushan and 81 Padma Shri awards. There are 17 ladies among the awardees.
Padma Vibhushan
| Sl.No. | Name | Discipline | State/ Domicile |
| 1. | Shri Ebrahim Alkazi | Art | Delhi |
| 2. | Shri Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 3. | Smt. Zohra Segal | Art | Delhi |
| 4. | Dr. Yaga Venugopal Reddy | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
| 5. | Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Science and Engineering | UK * |
| 6. | Dr. Prathap Chandra Reddy | Trade and Industry | Tamil Nadu |
Padma Bhushan
| Sl.No. | Name | Discipline | State/ Domicile |
| 1. | Shri Ilaiyaraaja | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 2. | Shri Aamir Khan | Art | Maharashtra |
| 3. | Shri Akbar Padamsee | Art | Maharashtra |
| 4. | Shri Allah Rakha Rahman | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 5. | Pandit Chhannulal Mishra | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 6. | Smt. Kumudini Lakhia | Art | Gujarat |
| 7. | Shri Kuzhur Narayana Marar | Art | Kerala |
| 8. | Prof. Madhusudan Amilal Dhaky | Art | Gujarat |
| 9. | Ms. Mallika Sarabhai | Art | Gujarat |
| 10. | Prof. (Dr.) Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
| 11. | Pandit (Dr.) Puttaraj Gavai | Art | Karnataka |
| 12. | Shri Ram Kumar | Art | Delhi |
| 13. | Shri Shrinivas Vinayak Khale | Art | Maharashtra |
| 14. | Ustad Sultan Khan | Art | Maharashtra |
| 15. | Shri B.K. Chaturvedi | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 16. | Shri Moosa Raza | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 17. | Dr. P.R. Dubhashi | Civil Service | Maharashtra |
| 18. | Shri Fareed Zakaria | Journalism | USA * |
| 19. | Shri Anil Bordia | Literature and Education | Rajasthan |
| 20. | Prof. Bipan Chandra | Literature and Education | Delhi |
| 21. | Shri G.P. Chopra | Literature and Education | Delhi |
| 22. | Prof. Mohammad Amin | Literature and Education | Delhi |
| 23. | Prof. Satya Vrat Shastri | Literature and Education | Delhi |
| 24. | Prof. Tan Chung | Literature and Education | USA * |
| 25. | Prof. Belle Monappa Hegde | Medicine | Karnataka |
| 26. | Shri E.T. Narayanan Mooss | Medicine | Kerala |
| 27. | Dr. Noshir M. Shroff | Medicine | Delhi |
| 28. | Dr. Panniyampilly Krishna Warrier | Medicine | Kerala |
| 29. | Dr. Ramakant Madanmohan Panda | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 30. | Prof.(Dr.) Satya Paul Agarwal | Medicine | Delhi |
| 31. | Prof. Abhijit Sen | Public Affairs | Delhi |
| 32. | Shri Sailesh Kumar Bandyopadhyay | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
| 33. | Shri Sant Singh Chatwal | Public Affairs | USA * |
| 34. | Prof. Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj | Science and Engineering | USA * |
| 35. | Prof. Bikash Chandra Sinha | Science and Engineering | West Bengal |
| 36. | Shri Jagdish Chandra Kapur | Science and Engineering | Delhi |
| 37. | Dr. Balagangadharanatha Swamiji | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 38. | Shri Eknath Rao alias Balasaheb Vikhe Patil | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 39. | Capt. C.P. Krishnan Nair | Trade and Industry | Maharashtra |
| 40. | Dr. Kushal Pal Singh | Trade and Industry | Delhi |
| 41. | Shri Manvinder Singh Banga alias Vindi Banga | Trade and Industry | UK * |
| 42. | Shri Narayanan Vaghul | Trade and Industry | Tamil Nadu |
| 43. | Shri S.P. Oswal | Trade and Industry | Punjab |
Padma Shri
| Sl.No. | Name | Discipline | State/ Domicile |
| 1. | Shri Gulam Mohammed Mir | Public Service | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 2. | Ms. Rekha | Art | Maharashtra |
| 3. | Shri Arjun Prajapati | Art | Rajasthan |
| 4. | Ms. Arundhati Nag | Art | Karnataka |
| 5. | Ms. Carmel Berkson | Art | Maharashtra |
| 6. | Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar | Art | Delhi |
| 7. | Smt. Gul Bardhan | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
| 8. | Smt. Haobam Ongbi Ngangbi Devi | Art | Manipur |
| 9. | Shri Hari Uppal | Art | Bihar |
| 10. | Shri K. Raghavan | Art | Kerala |
| 11. | Guru Mayadhar Raut | Art | Delhi |
| 12. | Shri Mukund Lath | Art | Rajasthan |
| 13. | Shri Nemai Ghosh | Art | West Bengal |
| 14. | Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi | Art | Orissa |
| 15. | Shri Rajkumar Achouba Singh | Art | Manipur |
| 16. | Dr. Ram Dayal Munda | Art | Jharkhand |
| 17. | Shri Resul Pokutty | Art | Kerala |
| 18. | Shri Saif Ali Khan | Art | Maharashtra |
| 19. | Dr. (Smt.) Shobha Raju | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
| 20. | Ms. Sumitra Guha | Art | Delhi |
| 21. | Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar | Art | West Bengal |
| 22. | Shri D.R. Karthikeyan | Civil Service | Delhi |
| 23. | Dr. Ranjit Bhargava | Environment Protection | Uttarakhand |
| 24. | Shri Arun Sarma | Literature and Education | Assam |
| 25. | Prof. Arvind Kumar | Literature and Education | Maharashtra |
| 26. | Ms. Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar | Literature and Education | Meghalaya |
| 27. | Prof. Govind Chandra Pande | Literature and Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| 28. | Prof. Hamidi Kashmiri | Literature and Education | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 29. | Prof. (Dr.) Hermann Kulke | Literature and Education | Germany * |
| 30. | Shri Janaki Ballav Shastri | Literature and Education | Bihar |
| 31. | Dr. Jitendra Udhampuri | Literature and Education | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 32. | Dr. Lal Bahadur Singh Chauhan | Literature and Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 33. | Shri Lalzuia Colney | Literature and Education | Mizoram |
| 34. | Ms. Maria Aurora Couto | Literature and Education | Goa |
| 35. | Dr.(Smt.) Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy alias Y.G. Parthasarathy | Literature and Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 36. | Prof. Ramaranjan Mukherji | Literature and Education | West Bengal |
| 37. | Dr. Ranganathan Parthasarathy | Literature and Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 38. | Fr. Romuald D'Souza | Literature and Education | Goa |
| 39. | Prof. Sadiq - Ur - Rahman Kidwai | Literature and Education | Delhi |
| 40. | Mr. Sheldon Pollock | Literature and Education | USA * |
| 41. | Dr. Surendra Dubey | Literature and Education | Chhattisgarh |
| 42. | Dr. Anil Kumar Bhalla | Medicine | Delhi |
| 43. | Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| 44. | Dr. B. Ramana Rao | Medicine | Karnataka |
| 45. | Dr. Jalakantapuram Ramaswamy Krishnamoorthy | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 46. | Dr. K.K. Aggarwal | Medicine | Delhi |
| 47. | Prof. Kodaganur S. Gopinath | Medicine | Karnataka |
| 48. | Dr. Laxmi Chand Gupta | Medicine | Delhi |
| 49. | Dr. Philip Augustine | Medicine | Kerala |
| 50. | Dr. Rabindra Narain Singh | Medicine | Bihar |
| 51. | Dr. Vikas Mahatme | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 52. | Dr. Rafael Iruzubieta Fernandez | Public Affairs | Spain * |
| 53. | Prof. M.R. Satyanarayana Rao | Science and Engineering | Karnataka |
| 54. | Prof. (Dr.) Palpu Pushpangadan | Science and Engineering | Kerala |
| 55. | Prof. Ponisseril Somasundaran | Science and Engineering | USA * |
| 56. | Prof. Pucadyil Ittoop John | Science and Engineering | Gujarat |
| 57. | Dr. Vijay Prasad Dimri | Science and Engineering | Andhra Pradesh |
| 58. | Dr.(Ms.) Vijaylakshmi Ravindranath | Science and Engineering | Karnataka |
| 59. | Ms. Anu Aga | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 60. | Shri Ayekpam Tomba Meetei | Social Work | Manipur |
| 61. | Shri Deep Joshi | Social Work | Delhi |
| 62. | Dr. J.R. Gangaramani | Social Work | UAE * |
| 63. | Shri Kranti Shah | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 64. | Dr. Kurian John Melamparambil | Social Work | Kerala |
| 65. | Baba Sewa Singh | Social Work | Punjab |
| 66. | Ms. Sudha Kaul | Social Work | West Bengal |
| 67. | Dr. Sudhir M. Parikh | Social Work | USA * |
| 68. | Shri Ignace Tirkey | Sports | Orissa |
| 69. | Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan | Sports | Tamil Nadu |
| 70. | Shri Ramakant Vithal Achrekar | Sports | Maharashtra |
| 71. | Ms. Saina Nehwal | Sports | Andhra Pradesh |
| 72. | Shri Vijender Singh | Sports | Haryana |
| 73. | Shri Virendra Sehwag | Sports | Delhi |
| 74. | Dr. Alluri Venkata Satyanarayana Raju | Trade and Industry | Andhra Pradesh |
| 75. | Dr. B. Raveendran Pillai | Trade and Industry | Bahrain * |
| 76. | Shri Deepak Puri | Trade and Industry | Delhi |
| 77. | Shri Irshad Mirza | Trade and Industry | Uttar Pradesh |
| 78. | Brig. Dr. Kapil Mohan | Trade and Industry | Himachal Pradesh |
| 79. | Dr. Karsanbhai Khodidas Patel | Trade and Industry | Gujarat |
| 80. | Shri T.N. Manoharan | Trade and Industry | Tamil Nadu |
| 81. | Shri Venu Srinivasan | Trade and Industry | Tamil Nadu |
Note: *Denotes awardees in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs.
