Are detention centres linked to NRC?

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that there were no detention centres being made for illegal immigrants in Assam and other parts of India, India Today TV found out that construction of the biggest detention centre at Matia in Assam's Goalpora district is in process.

At present, Assam has six detention centres. They are running from jail premises in Dibrugarh, Silchar, Tezpur, Kokrajhar, and Goalpara districts.

It was the then Congress government in 2009 that decided to organise these makeshift camps inside jails so that people who were declared as immigrants do not go missing.