Centre has urged Supreme Court to vacate a two year stay which prevents it from mandatorily using Aadhaar cards to extend social welfare schemes to the citizens. In a fresh application seeking to vacate the stay, the BJP-led NDA government said that the stay is adversely affecting such direct benefit transfer schemes. It also conveyed its intention to extend the use of Aadhaar identity cards to issuance of passports and PAN cards and in other clearances such as in immigration, railways, telecom and prison management systems.