Union Minister Gadkari honoured with 43rd Lokmanya Tilak National Award

📰 Latest News: 43rd Lokmanya Tilak National Award – 2025

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari received the 43rd Lokmanya Tilak National Award in Pune on August 1, 2025, presented by the Lokmanya Tilak Smarak Trust.🗣️ He emphasized:

• Turning Swarajya (self-rule) into Surajya (good governance)
• Youth empowerment, transparent administration, and skilled leadership
• India’s potential to become a global power
  
  

• 📚 Static GK – Lokmanya Tilak National Award Winners 

  Year	Recipient	Remarks
  1983 (1st)	Shreedhar Mahadev Joshi	First recipient
  1985 (3rd)	Indira Gandhi (Posthumous)	Former Prime Minister
  1988 (6th)	Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Posthumous)	Freedom fighter
  1993 (11th)	Shankar Dayal Sharma	Former President of India
  1994 (12th)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Former Prime Minister
  1997 (15th)	Dr. Manmohan Singh	Former Prime Minister
  2001 (19th)	Dr. M. S. Swaminathan	Agricultural scientist
  2023 (41st)	Narendra Modi	Current Prime Minister
  2024 (42nd)	Sudha Murty	Philanthropist, Author
  2025 (43rd)	Nitin Gadkari	Union Minister for Road Transport

  
  📅 Updated by: August 1, 2025, 9:30 PM
  🗞 Source: NewsOnAir