Fri. Mar 29th, 2024
Ravi Shankar Prasad

Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said that his government is planning to link Aadhaar with the driving license in order to tackle the problem of duplicate license. Speaking at the 106th Indian Science Congress, the Law Minister Prasad said the government is bringing this change to rein in motor-accident offenders, who usually take on another identity through fake driving license.

He said as quoted by PTI, “We are soon going to bring a law which will make it mandatory to link Aadhaar with driving licenses”. He added, “We are going to make another change. We are going to link Aadhaar with the driving license”.  “You are an offender in an accident here and flee to some other state and get a new license. You can change your name, but you cannot change your biometrics-iris and fingerprints,” Prasad said.

He said that Aadhaar is one’s “digital identity to supplement physical identity” and that the government has saved Rs 90,000 crore through direct benefit transfer of subsidies and other facilities.
Experts said that this could be done through law as the Supreme Court in its ruling on Aadhaar had said the ID could be used for welfare schemes and any legitimate state interest.

Prior to this, Lok Sabha on Friday approved a bill to amend the Aadhaar Act and two related laws which will allow individuals to offer voluntarily biometric ID as a means of identity verification for obtaining services such as opening a bank account, or new SIM connection etc.

Prasad in its speech in the Lok Sabha on Friday displayed his Aadhar Card and said, It doesn’t tell about my caste, religion and medical condition. It is safe and secured and is for India and Indians.”

By talharashid

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