On Friday, 45 men, 21 women and two children who have been "declared foreigners" by the quasi-judicial Foreigner Tribunals and those convicted by judicial courts of visa violations were shifted to the detention centre.
The first batch of 68 people declared foreigners by the Foreigners' Tribunal was moved to the newly built Assam's biggest detention centre, officially known as Transit Camp in Goalpara district.
The Assam government has renamed detention centres for foreigners to transit camps to humanise them. A 12-year-old notification was modified to rename the six detention centres in the state.