National Anubhav Awards 2025

Context:

The 8th National Anubhav Awards were presented in New Delhi, celebrating a decade of the initiative and honouring 15 awardees from 11 ministries, including PSU bank and BHEL officers for the first time.

Background of Initiative:

Launched in 2015 by the Government of India under the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare.
Objective: To record experiences of retiring officials as institutional memory for governance.
Functions as part of the Anubhav Portal, where officers submit memoirs before superannuation.

Anubhav Awards:

Recognises selected memoirs highlighting significant contributions during service.
Encourages transparency, citizen-centric governance, and better human resource management.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the initiative.

Key Features of 2025 Awards:

15 awardees across 11 ministries/departments, with one-third women awardees.
For the first time, officers from a Public Sector Bank (SBI) and a Central Public Sector Enterprise (BHEL) were felicitated.
Over 12,500 memoirs published on the Anubhav Portal so far.