Days after voicing concern over the data collection process of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said a decision on who would capture biometrics information of all Indians will be taken by a Cabinet Committee.

"What is being referred to the Cabinet Committee on UIDAI is who should do the capture of the biometrics. Should it be the Registrar General of India or should it be the UIDAI.

UIDAI as of now has a mandate to capture biometrics for upto 200 million people. So, UIDAI committee will decide," he said at a press conference here.

He was responding to a question whether the government is changing the Foreigners Act to notify UIDAI as a registrar so that it can go ahead to collect the biometrics of more people than what it was mandated.

"Once that decision is taken it will be implemented.

The decision will be taken by the Cabinet Committee on UIDAI," Chidambaram said.

Early this month, the Home Minister had expressed concern over the data collection process of UIDAI saying there was real chance of inclusion of non-usual residents and creation of false profile which may compromise internal security.

He said the process of the National Population Register being prepared by the Registrar General of India has been carefully devised after considerable deliberations at the level of an Empowered Group of Ministers, pilot trials, consultations with state governments.

"The data collected by multiple registrars of the UIDAI does not meet the degree of assurance required under the NPR from the point of view of internal security," he had said.