The awards committee and the foundation is not seeking any information that is proprietary in nature or information that is confidential. All data, statistics and infographics provided have been given voluntarily for the purposes of nomination under applicable categories of awards.
The awards committee or the foundation makes it abundantly clear that it has no intention to cast any aspersions or to put any ‘person’ in poor light.
PAN is common denominator for extending support to a valid nominee and also to prevent bogus voting or voting through IT tools such as bot.