Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said the government will soon make it mandatory for linking Aadhaar with driving licences.
Delivering his presidential address at the ongoing 106th Indian Science Congress here, the Minister for Law, Electronics and Information Technology said: “We are soon going to bring a law which will make it mandatory to link Aadhaar with driving licence.”
“At presently, what happens is that the guilty person who causes an accident flees the scene and gets a duplicate licence.
“This helps him go scot-free. With the Aadhaar linkage you can change your name but you cannot change your biometrics. So the moment you go in for a duplicate licence, the system will say this person already has a driving licence,” said Mr. Prasad.
Published - January 07, 2019 01:15 am IST
