NEW DELHI: Any Indian can now recommend any achiever for the prestigious Padma Awards , with the government throwing open the nomination process to general public to make it transparent and curb the crony culture of influence and lobbying.The Padma Awards website hosts an interactive dashboard of all the awardees from 1954, the year when these awards were instituted, to 2016. The dashboard enables a user to understand, explore and analyze all the Padma awardees - across categories, year, state and profession.The software processes big data of the around 4400 awardees till date, into a simple and intuitive format.The nominations can be made online but the nominators would be required to furnish their Aadhaar details for authenticity and accountability.Opening up of the nomination process to the general public will also help in identifying unsung or lesser known people of excellence, sources said."Simple online nomination encourages and facilitates all Indian citizens to participate," the sources added.The government has already received over 1700 nominations and the last date of nomination is September 15.