Phagwara:Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said government will soon make it mandatory for linking Aadhaar with driving licences.Delivering his presidential address at ongoing 106th Indian Science Congress at Lovely Professional University here, 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 guilty person who causes an accident flees scene and gets a duplicate licence.
This helps him go scot-free.
However, with Aadhaar linkage you can change your name but you cannot change your biometrics, neither iris nor fingerprints.
So moment you go in for a duplicate licence, system will say this person already has a driving licence and should not be given a new one," said Prasad, explaining need for linkage.Eulogising about Centre's 'Digital India' programme, minister claimed that it had bridged urban-rural divide.
Through a power presentation, Prasad said, "This is digital profile of India -- 123 crore Aadhaar cards,121 crore mobile phones, 44.6 crore smart phones, 56 crore internet users, there has been 51 per cent growth in e-commerce.
There is 130 crore population in India." He also said digital payment transactions in country have increased manifold to over Rs 2,070 crore in 2017-18.
LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal, Punjab BJP President Shwait Malik and Phagwara MLA Som Parkash were also present on occasion.