The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) through its Twitter handle - Aadhaar@UIDAI - has made some important announcements for all. Taking to Twitter, UIDAI posted, "IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Dear All, Our registrars are preparing for resuming of Aadhaar services wherever it is being permitted by the state/ district authorities as per the new guidelines of #Lockdown4 . 1/3"

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In another tweet, UIDAI said, "You may check available appointment slots in your area on the our appointment portal https://appointments.uidai.gov.in/bookappointment.aspx or mAadhaar App. 2/3."

Further, UIDAI added, "Pls follow the advisory issued by your local administration related to #Lockdown4 . Once services resume, social distancing in and outside the Aadhaar Kendra will be mandated. 3/3."

Earlier, on April 27, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had allowed the Common Service Centre, an SPV (special purpose vehicle) under the Ministry of IT and Electronics, to start the Aadhaar updation facility at 20,000 centres that operate as Banking Correspondents (BCs).

The UIDAI has set the June deadline for start of work after CSCs with banking facilities upgrade their infrastructure and get other necessary approvals.

As per the Supreme Court order, the Aadhaar work through CSCs was discontinued in December 2018. Since then there has been a demand from the VLEs, running over 3.5 lakh CSCs, to start the Aadhaar enrolment work as they had invested in the Aadhaar kits and had trained manpower.

The CSCs had generated 20 crore Aadhaar cards, before it was discontinued.