Guwahati: Lakhs of Assamese Muslims names left out in the conducted NRC has long been labelled as ‘illegal immigrants’ since they are Muslims despite being ‘Indian Citizens’ while the Hindutva leaders have amended a law that could grant the remaining lakhs of Hindu community people a backdoor to apply for Indian citizenship.
A day after PM Modi’s stated no detention centres are being constructed for these illegally labelled Muslim migrants in Assam and other parts of India, the news channel India Today TV found out that construction of the biggest detention centre at Matia in Assam’s Goalpora district is on the verge of completion.
According to reports, the Home Ministry in 2018 had sanctioned Rs 46.41 crores for the construction of detention compound.
Contractors working on the detention centre’s construction spreading over a stretch of 28,800 sq ft of land at Matia, that is 129 km away from Assam’s capital city Guwahati, can accommodate 3,000 illegal immigrants which are operational in the next few months.
“Almost 70 percent of the work has been completed. It will be built at a cost of around Rs 46 crore, with a capacity to hold 3,000 detained that people who were declared as immigrants. All facilities like schools, community hall, electricity, etc will be available here. The deadline for completion of work here is scheduled on December 31, 2019, but this might extend to a couple of more months,” the construction contractor told.
According to reports, Assam state, at the moment, has six such detention centres in operation.
They are running from jail premises in Dibrugarh, Silchar, Tezpur, Kokrajhar, and Goalpara districts.