The Centre is considering linking Aadhaar with driving licences to tackle the problem of duplicate and fraudulent documents, law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Sunday.
“We are soon going to bring a law which will make it mandatory to link Aadhaar with driving licences. At present, 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.
However, with the Aadhaar linkage you can change your name but you cannot change your biometrics, neither iris nor fingerprints. So the moment you go in for a duplicate licence, the system will say this person already has a driving licence and should not be given a new one,” said Prasad.
