The government is considering linking of electoral data with Aadhaar system to weed out duplication of entries and make electoral roll error-free, Parliament was informed on Thursday.
To a question on whether government proposes to use Aadhaar as a Voter I-card or link Aadhaar with the voter list, Minister of Electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad in a reply in Rajya Sabha said, "As per information received from Legislative Department, a proposal to amend Representation of the People Act, 1951, to enable linking of Electoral data with Aadhaar system, is under consideration..."