Eulogising about the Centre’s ‘Digital India’ programme, the minister claimed that it had bridged the urban-rural divide of Aadhaar Driving Licence. Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said the government will soon make it mandatory for linking Aadhaar with driving licences.

Delivering his presidential address at the ongoing 106th Indian Science Congress at Lovely Professional University here, the minister for 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.”

Eulogising about the Centre’s ‘Digital India’ programme, the minister claimed that it had bridged the urban-rural divide. He also said digital payment transactions in the country have increased manifold to over Rs 2,070 crore in 2017-18.