Assam now calls detention centres as transit camps

August 19, 2021 15:54

The Assam government has said that detention centres, which house 'foreigners' in Assam, will now be called 'Transit camps'. A notification, signed by Niraj Verma, principal secretary of home and political department, on August 17, stated that "the nomenclature of detention centre is changed to 'Transit Camp' for detention purpose' in partial modification of an earlier notification dated June 17th, 2009.

The change of nomenclature will perhaps give a more humane look to detention centers which detractors say are like concentration camps.

The detention centres are isolated cells in the conventional jails and the inmates are allegedly treated on a par with the criminals lodged in jails.

Assam has six detention centres where 181 declared foreigners are currently lodged. The Goalpara detention centre has 41 inmates, Kokrajhar 11, Silchar 49, Dibrugarh 13, Jorhat 22 and Tezpur 45.

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