Aadhaar and driving license linkage soon? What we know so far
Tuesday, June 12, 2018 IST
The proposed Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill provides for linking of driving license and vehicle registration with the Aadhaar-based platform and proposes heavy penalties for traffic violations.
The idea of linking Aadhaar with the driving license is seemingly moving ahead and now the Modi government is moving in a focussed direction as Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that he is in talks with Nitin Gadkari to move ahead with this idea. Prasad holds the charge of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, while Gadkari is Road Transport and Highways Minister in the Modi-cabinet. This comes after the issue of fake license being raised by several states and the difficulties of tracking driving offenders.
Moreover, the minister spoke in the context of drunk drivers, who commit accidents and flew to other states and linking Aadhaar with the license will help to nab the driver as fingerprints cannot be changed even if a person changes the name. “I am in conversation with Union Minister Nitin Gadkari to link Aadhaar card with license so that if a drunk driver escapes from one state to another by killing people, he would be caught. A person can change name not his/her fingerprints,” ANI quoted Prasad as saying on Tuesday.
The latest statement comes after Ravi Shankar Prasad in February had said that talks with Nitin Gadkari were going on to expedite the process of linking motor vehicle driving licenses with Aadhaar. “I am taking with Nitin Gadkari ji to finalise the linking up all the motor vehicle driving licences with Aadhaar,” Prasad said while addressing the NSE Tech Conclave 2018.
Also in February, Supreme Court-appointed committee on road safety headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice K S Radhakrishnan informed the court that centre is in the process of linking driving licenses with the Aadhaar and a software covering all states on a real-time basis is under preparation. The committee also informed the court that it had asked states and union territories (UTs) to forward road accident data for entire 2017.
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