The central government is reportedly trying to restart Aadhaar services in nearly 3 lakh Common Service Centres (CSC), in rural areas across the country, the minister for electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad reportedly said on Tuesday .
CSCs were initiated under the Digital India programme to act as access points for social welfare schemes, healthcare, financial, educational and agricultural services in remote areas. With the drive to integrate government schemes under Aadhaar, CSCs were also entrusted with Aadhaar registrations and its related biometric data
However in February, the Aadhaar-regulatory body Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) refused to renew the registrar agreement of CSC Special Purpose Vehicle (CSC SPV), which manages the implementation of the CSC scheme, citing a rise in allegations of corruption by CSC operators.
This year, several of the Aadhaar leak instances happened via the common service centres across the country.
