Explaining the need for the linkage the union minister said, "At presently, 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."
Eulogising about the Centre's 'Digital India' programme, the minister claimed that it had bridged the urban-rural divide. Through a power presentation, Prasad said, "This is digital profile of India -- 123 crore Aadhaar cards,121 crore mobile phones, 44.6 crore smart phones, 56 crore internet users, there has been 51 per cent growth in e-commerce. There is 130 crore population in India." He also said digital payment transactions in the country have increased manifold to over Rs 2,070 crore in 2017-18.