Detention
centres are meant to house illegal immigrants after they are declared ‘foreigners’
by tribunals/courts or foreigners who have served their sentence for an offence
in India and are awaiting deportation to their home country.
The word Detention
Centre made popular in India after the Citizenship Amendment Act passed in
December’19. Illegal immigrants came into India through North Eastern states
and West Bengal from Bangladesh. These centres were first set up in 2005 in
Assam by Tarun Gagoi led Congress government. After pandemic virus eruption in
India Detention centres issue ignored.
Yogi Adithyanath
government in Uttar Pradesh has given green signal to open a detention centre
in the state. The Social Welfare Department in Ghaziabad is in charge of
converting SC/ST hostel into the Detention Centre. UP government dared to
change into Detention Centre after a go-ahead by the Union Government. The
detention centre will house all such detainees, who are foreigners and booked
for violating the Passport Act 1987 and Foreigners Act 1946. It will house for
the people who finished their sentences and are waiting to get deported to
their respective nations.


Ghaziabad
detention centre can accommodate 100-120 inmates. It is the 12th
Detention Centre in India. Former CM Mayawati demanded a rollback of the
decision. UP is in top 5 states in India reported the number of coronavirus cases.
When other states changed the hotels and welfare organization buildings into
Covid hospitals, UP’s decision will raise many doubts among the political
parties. The state was received 5K cases
regularly. Amid of severe corona outbreak, it is questionable to made SC/ST
hostel into Detention Centres. The Dr Ambedkar Hostel for SC/ST Students was
built 2010-11 during Mayawati’s tenure as CM.
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