In Nandgram, a hostel housing SC and ST students will not be turned into a detention centre. After facing a backlash against building a detention centre for undocumented migrants, the government has withdrawn the decision. In December 2019, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi denied that there are any detention centres in India, one was being built in Ghaziabad's Nandgram.

The hostel was built when BSP chief mayawati was the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. On Thursday, she took to Twitter to demand that the proposed detention centre should not be built and it should continue to be used as a hotel. Keeping this in mind, and to avoid the issue from getting politicised, the government has reversed its decision to build this detention centre. The building will now remain a hostel. The Wire's Shekhar Tiward went to Delhi's neighbouring city Ghaziabad to speak to the residents of the hostel.

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