Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards 2024–2025
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The Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA) announced its Fellowship, Akademi Awards and Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for the 2024 and 2025 cycles. The announcement was made on 10 June 2026 following the General Council meeting held in New Delhi. The Council selected seven Akademi Fellows, 108 Akademi Awardees, and 106 young artists for the Yuva Puraskar.
The honours recognise outstanding contributions to music, dance, theatre, folk and tribal arts, puppetry, and other performing arts.
About Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards 2024–2025
Sangeet Natak Akademi and Award Structure
The Sangeet Natak Akademi is India’s national academy for music, dance and drama. It functions under the Ministry of Culture and plays an important role in recognising and promoting India’s performing arts traditions.
The Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, popularly known as Akademi Ratna, is the Akademi’s highest honour. The Fellowship is a prestigious and rare distinction, with the number of Fellows restricted to 40 at any given time.
The Akademi Awards, or Akademi Puraskar, recognise sustained excellence across several performing-art forms. The Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar recognises promising young artists.
The monetary components are:
| Honour | Award |
|---|---|
| Akademi Fellowship | ₹3 lakh |
| Akademi Award | ₹1 lakh |
| Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar | ₹25,000 |
Each honour also includes a Tamrapatra and Angavastram.
Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards 2024–2025
The seven selected Akademi Fellows are Ramlal Bareth, A. V. Anand, Rita Ganguly, Puru Dadheech, Chittaranjan Jyotishi, Pasumarthi Rattaiah Sarma, and Sudharani Raghupathy.
The 2024 music awardees include Arun Nagesh Kashalkar, Nirmalya Dey, Bharat Bhushan Goswami, Sanjay Mukherjee, K. Vageesh, and Rakesh Chaurasia. Dance awardees include Rajeswari Sainath, Bipul Chandra Das, Rajkumari Thambalsana Devi, Veena Murthy Vijay, Bichitrananda Swain, Prema Ozah Borbayan, and Sreedevi Rajan. The official list confirms the broader selection across music, dance, theatre, traditional and folk arts, puppetry, and scholarship.
The President of India will confer the Fellowship and Awards at a special investiture ceremony in New Delhi. The supplied information places the ceremony at Vigyan Bhawan on 13 August 2026. The Akademi’s official guidelines provide for presentation by the President, Vice-President, Prime Minister, or another eminent personality.
Related Information
The Sangeet Natak Akademi has also been designated as the nodal agency for Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) matters under the Ministry of Culture. It documents and promotes India’s diverse traditional, folk and tribal performing arts.
Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards 2024–2025: Exam Oriented Facts
- Established: 1953
- Ministry: Ministry of Culture
- Fellowship: Akademi Ratna
- Akademi Awards: Akademi Puraskar
- Fellows selected: 7
- Akademi Awardees: 108
- Yuva Puraskar awardees: 106
- Yuva Award: Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar
- Fellowship purse: ₹3 lakh
- Akademi Award purse: ₹1 lakh
- Yuva Puraskar: ₹25,000
- Akademi Fellowship limit: 40 Fellows at a time
- Key fields: Music, dance, theatre, folk and tribal arts, puppetry and allied performing arts.
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