Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday said the Centre was thinking of linking the Aadhaar number with driving licences. “We are planning to link driving licence to Aadhaar,” the information and technology minister said at the Digital Haryana Summit 2017. “I have had a word with [Transport Minister] Nitin Gadkari regarding this.”

At the event, Prasad said the central government had made it compulsory to link Aadhaar with the Permanent Account Number to “stop money laundering”. “Aadhaar is a digital identity, not a physical identity,” he said. “Digital identity confirms physical identity.”

So far, more than 50 central schemes have been linked with Aadhaar. It was also made mandatory to file Income Tax returns.

A Constitutional bench of the Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments on whether Aadhaar breaches the privacy of citizens.