Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar is an annual Indian award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi to outstanding artists under 40 who have demonstrated talent in the fields of music, dance and drama. The award is intended to provide national recognition to the artists in the early years of their careers. Every year up to 33 artists are selected. Award winners receive a prize of . The award has been conferred since 2006.
Recipients
Theatre
Play writing
2016 - Manish Joshi
2017 - Kuldeep Kunal
Theatre direction
2012- Nalini Nihar Nayak
2018 - Dr. Chavan Pramod R.
Acting
2018 - Namrata Sharma
2018 - Sunil Palwal
2018 - Preeti Jha Tiwari
2012 - Happy Ranajit
Traditional theatre
2016 - Jayachandra Varma Rekandar
Dance
Bharatnatyam
2006 - Sheejith Krishna
2007 - C. Lavanya Ananth
2008 - Gayatri Balagurunathan
2009 - Ragini Chander Shekar
2010 - Praveen Kumar
2011 - Meenakshi Srinivasan
2012 - Uma Sathya Narayanan
2014 - Lavanya Sankar, Lakshmi Parthasarathy Athreya
2015 - Shijith Nambiar & Parvathi Menon (Joint Award) 2016 - Jyotsna Jagannathan 2017 - Parshwanath Upadhye 2018 - Renjith & Vijna 2019 - Sudipa Ghosh 2020 - Mithun Shyam 2021 - Pavitra Krishna Bhat
Chhau
2011 - Dilip Chandra Mahato
2014 - Satish Kumar Modak, Lokanath Das
Kathakali
2006 - Kalamandalam Pradeep Kumar
2007 - Kalamandalam Shanmukhadas C
2008 - Vijay Kumar N
2010 - M. Amaljith
2011 - Renjini K. P. 2012 - Kalamandalam Harinarayanan.A 2014 - Kalamandalam Arun Warrier 2015 - Thulasi kumar Sudhakaran 2017 - C.M. Unnikrishnan
Kathak
2006 - Prashant Shah
2007 - Sharvari Ashok Jamenis
2008 - Gauri Diwakar
2009 - Monisa Nayak
2010 - Pallabi De
2011 - Namrata Pamnani
2012 - Anuj Mishra
2014 - Souvik Chakraborty, Sandeep Mahavir
2015 - Vishal Krishna, Divya Goswami Dikshit
2016 - Sanjukta Sinha
2017 - Vidha Lal
2018 - Durgesh Gangani
2021 - Rudra Shankar Mishra
Kuchipudi
2006 - Vedantam Venkata Nagachalapathi Rao
2007 - Yamini Reddy
2008 - Arunima Kumar
2009 - Chinta Ravi Balakrishna
2010 - Yeleswarapu Srinivasulu
2011 - Kuravi Venkata Subrahmanya Prasad
2012 - Vedantam Satya Narasimha Sastry
2014 - Prateeksha Kashi, Mosalikanti Jaikishore
2015 - Boby Chakraborty
2016 - Pasumarthi Mruthyunjaya
2017 - Bhavana Reddy
2021 - Avijit Das
2021 - Sreelakshmi Govardhanan
Manipuri
2006 - Sijagurumayum Nimita Devi
2007 - Laishram Bina Devi
2008 - Bimbavati Devi
2009 - Hanlem Indu Devi
2011 - Gurumayum Chandan Devi
2012 - Sinam Basu Singh
2015 - Pukhrambam Bilash Singh
2016 - Sanjenbam Karuna Devi
2017 - Adhikarimayum Radhamanbi Devi
2018 - Dr Manju Elangbam
Mohiniattam
2007 - Methil Devika
2009 - Manjula B. Murthy
2014 - Saji Menon
2016 - Kalamandalam Rachitha Ravi
2020 - Rekha Raju - Overall contribution to performing arts
Odissi
2006 - Bijayini Satpathy, Leena Mohanty
2007 - Madhusmita Mohanty
2008 - Rahul Acharya
2009 - Lingaraj Pradhan
2010 - Arushi Mudgal
2011 - Sonali Mohapatra
2012 - Yudhisthir Nayak
2014 - Rajashri Prahraj
2016 - Shashwati Garai Ghosh
2017 - Janhabi Behera
2018 - Madhulita Mohapatra
Sattriya
2008 - Meerananda Barthakur
2009 - Menaka P.P. Bora
2010 - Naren Barua
2012 - Bhabananda Barbayan
2014 - Mridusmita Das, Anwesa Mahanta
2015 - Seujpriya Borthakur
2016 - Usharani Baishya
Contemporary / Experimental dance
2010 - Madhu Nataraj
2012 - Preethi Balachandran Athreya
2014 - Vikram Iyengar
2015 - Shilpika Bordoloi
2017 - Sudesh Adhana
Other major traditions of dance and theatre
2008 - Purvadhanshree (Vilasini Natyam) 2014 - Sangeeth Chakyar (Kutiyattam)