Digital Census in 2021: Shah proposes idea of multipurpose ID card

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Union home minister Amit Shah has mooted the idea of a multipurpose identity card for citizens with all utilities like Aadhaar, passport, driving licence and bank accounts.

The home minister also said that a mobile app will be used for the first time in the 2021 census and the country would be moving from the pen and paper census to digital data, which will be a big revolution in the country’s census exercise.

“Why can’t we have just one card for all utilities like Aadhaar, passport, bank account, driving licence, voter card. There should be a system that all data should be put together in a single card.

This is a potential.  That is why digital census is very important,” he said after laying the foundation stone of a new building of the Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner in New Delhi.