The decision was taken by the Union Cabinet here, a top government source told PTI.
The move came a week after Chidambaram wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh complaining that RGI's National Population Register (NPR) project is "almost at a standstill" due to the refusal of Nandan Nilekani-led UIDAI to accept the NPR data for de-duplication and generation of Aadhaar numbers.
This was for the second time that Chidambaram took up at the highest level the issue of capturing the biometric data of the population by UIADI and its alleged non- cooperation with the RGI project.
The UIDAI comes under the nodal authority of the Planning Commission.
In January last, the Planning Commission and the Home Ministry had been locked in a tussle over the unique identification number project and both of them have taken the issue to the Prime Minister for a solution, which led to a temporary truce under which UIADI had promised to accept the NPR data.
"Despite directions from the government, the UIDAI is objecting to the conduct of the NPR camps in certain states and is also refusing to accept the biometric data of NPR for de-duplication and generation of Aadhaar numbers," Chidambaram wrote in his latest letter to the Prime Minister. (More)