Padma Awards 2025: The on-line nomination and suggestion process for the Padma Awards 2025 started on Wednesday (May 1), with September 15 because the final date. The Padma Awards, specifically Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri, are among the many highest civilian awards within the nation.
Instituted in 1954, these awards are introduced on the event of Republic Day yearly. The awards search to recognise ‘work of distinction’ and are given for distinguished and distinctive achievements or providers in all fields and disciplines, akin to artwork, literature, training, sports activities, drugs, social work, science and engineering, public affairs, civil service, commerce and trade, and so forth.
All individuals with out the excellence of race, occupation, place, or gender are eligible for these awards. However, authorities servants together with these working with the PSUs, besides medical doctors and scientists, aren’t eligible for the Padma Awards.
Transforming Padma Awards into ‘People’s Padma’
The authorities led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has maintained that it stands dedicated to remodeling the Padma Awards into ‘People’s Padma’. The nominations and suggestions for the awards will likely be acquired on-line on the Rashtriya Puraskar portal.
Identifying gifted individuals
According to the Home Ministry, concerted efforts are made to establish the gifted individuals whose excellence and achievements need to be recognised from amongst girls, weaker sections of the society, SCs and STs, Divyang individuals, and those that are rendering selfless service for the society.
The nominations and suggestions ought to comprise all related particulars specified within the format out there on the Rashtriya Puraskar portal, together with a quotation in narrative type, clearly bringing out the distinguished and distinctive achievements of the advisable individuals.
Details on this regard are additionally out there beneath the heading ‘Awards and Medals’ on the web site of the Ministry of Home Affairs, and on the Padma Awards portal.
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