Driving Licenses to be Now Linked With Aadhaar, Says Supreme Court-Appointed Committee
The court-appointed committee told the bench that the aim of Aadhaar linkage is to weed out the duplicate licenses.
New Delhi, Feb 9: Amid the ongoing course of hearing challenging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar, the Supreme Court on Wednesday was told by a top-level committee that soon driving license would also be linked with the unique identification card.
The court-appointed committee headed by former SC judge Justice KS Radhakrishnan told the bench the aim of linking driving licenses to Aadhaar is to weed out the duplicate licenses.
To execute the plan, the committee said, a software called 'Sarthi 4' is being prepared by the National Informetrics Centre, which would link the driving licence with the Aadhaar card in real-time.
"This software will cover all the states on real time basis and it will not be possible for anyone to get duplicate or fake licence anywhere in the country," the report submitted by the committee said.
Meanwhile, the petitioners have lined up their arguments before the top court which is hearing a clutch of pleas challenging the legal validity of Aadhaar.
During the proceedings on Thursday, senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who is representing the state of West Bengal, appealed the five-judge bench to order an interim stay on mandatory linkage of Aadhaar to subsidy availing schemes.
Sibal said the lack of 24x7 electricity and internet facility in rural parts for the authentication of Aadhaar is "denying the poor their rightful due." To this, the court refrained from issuing any order but directed the government to ensure no beneficiary is being denied the subsidised food grains due to lack of infrastructure.
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