page_title: National Register of Citizens
section_title: Detention Centres
hierarchical_section_title: National Register of Citizens / Detention Centres
caption_attribution_description: English: Anti NRC CAA Govt grafitti Shaheen Bagh New Delhi 8 Jan 2020
context_page_description: The National Register of Citizens is a register of all Indian citizens whose creation is mandated by the 2003 amendment of the Citizenship Act, 1955. Its purpose is to document all the legal citizens of India so that the illegal immigrants can be identified and deported. It has been implemented for the state of Assam starting in 2013–2014. The Government of India plans to implement it for the rest of the country in 2021.
context_section_description: According to the Section 3(2)(c) of The Foreigners Act, 1946, the central government can deport people of foreign countries who are staying illegally in India.
  In anticipation of the possible requirement to house a large number of illegal foreigners, who may be declared as such by the final NRC of India and the Foreigners' Tribunals, the government is in the process of building several detention camps throughout India. One of the first detention centres had come up in Assam during the tenure of the Congress government in 2008. In 2014, the Centre had told all the states to set up at least one detention centre for illegal immigrants so as not to mix them up with jail inmates.
  In 2018, activists filed a petition in the Supreme Court of India and brought to its notice the condition of the families separated from each other and locked separately in the six existing detention centres of Assam. On 9 January 2019, the Union government released a '2019 Model Detention Manual', which stated that every city or district, having a major immigration check post, must have a detention centre. The guidelines suggest detention centres with 10 feet high boundary walls covered with barbed wires. It also clarified the difference between a prison and a detention centre.
  Delhi Detention Centre is spread over three locations in Delhi to hold foreigners waiting for deportation. One of the centres at Lampur is being operated under the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO). The Special Branch of Delhi Police supervises the ward holding the Pakistanis, while people of other nationalities are under the watch of the FRRO. FRRO and Delhi police both work under the Central Home Ministry.
  Goa Detention Centre at Mapusa was opened for foreigners in May 2019.
  Karnataka Detention Centre is under construction at Sondekoppa in Nelamangala, located 40 kms from Bangalore. It is planned to be operational from 1 January 2020. The centre has 10-feet high walls, barbed wires with watchtowers in two corners of the compound.
  Maharashtra Detention Centre is being constructed at Nerul in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra in a 1.2 hectare plot of land.
  Punjab Detention Centre is currently being built in Goindwal Sahib in Tarn Taran district and is planned for completion in May 2020. AS of 2019, the foreigners are kept in a separate enclosure at Central Jail in Amritsar.
  Rajasthan Detention Centre is located in the campus of the Central Jail in Alwar.
  In December 2019, it was reported that the detention centres planned in West Bengal and Kerala had been put on hold.
caption: Slogans and graffiti protesting against CAA, NRC and detention camps in New Delhi on 8 January 2020. Visible are "Detention Camp = Jail = Gas Chamber", "Detention camp = Hell" and "Reject NRC" among others. Comparisons with Nazi Germany are visible.[34][35]
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