Aadhaar row: UIDAI snaps ties with enrolment agency; millions at risk

Millions to be affected after Authority refuses to allow CSC to continue providing Aadhaar facilities

When the Indian government realised in 2010 that it needed to quickly scale up its Aadhaar enrolment programme for over 1 billion Indians, it turned to a trusted partner.
 
The ‘Common Service Centre (CSC)’ scheme — a ready network of physical ‘e-governance’ centres scattered across thousands of gram panchayats across the country —proved to be more than helpful. So helpful in fact that by the end of 2013, thousands of CSCs that helped in enrolment were converted into permanent registration centres for “Aadhaar cards” to help with a people of Aadhaar-related services such as updation.
 
By February 2018,