Aadhaar-Driving Licence Linking To Be Made Mandatory: Ravi Shankar Prasad

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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
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