The Government of India has approved the Scheme for the Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration, 2025. The Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration has been designed to acknowledge, recognize and reward exemplary work done by civil servants across the country. For the year 2025, the scheme for Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration aims to recognize the contribution of civil servants in under three categories:

Category 1: Holistic Development of Districts under 11 priority sector programmes. Under this category, 5 awards would be conferred.

Category 2: Aspirational Blocks Program. Under this category, 5 awards would be conferred.

Category 3: Innovations for Central Ministries/Departments States, Districts. Under this category, 6 awards would be conferred

The PM’s Awards portal was launched on 01st October, 2025. The portal was made operational for registration and submission of nomination from 01st October, 2025 to 30th November, 2025.

2035 nominations were received on the PM Awards portal. The category wise break up of nominations received were –

(a) Holistic Development of Districts- 513

(b) Aspirational Blocks Program- 464

(c) Innovations- 1058

The evaluation of the applications for the purposes of awards would include (i) Short-listing of Districts/Organizations by Screening Committee, to be chaired by Additional Secretaries, (ii) Evaluation by Expert Committee to be chaired by Secretary, DARPG and (iii) Final recommendation for the awards by the Empowered Committee, chaired by the Cabinet Secretary. Prime Minister’s approval will be taken on the recommendations of the Empowered Committee for the Awards.

The PM’s Awards, 2025 will consist of: (i) Trophy, (ii) Scroll and (iii) an incentive of Rs. 20 lakhs to the awarded District/organization to be utilized for implementation of project/programme or bridging resources gaps in any area of public welfare.

The awards are scheduled to be conferred by the Hon’ble Prime Minister on 21st April, 2026 on the occasion of Civil Services Day, 2026 in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.

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