Frontline/The Hindu (21 February 2025): "On February 4, the Supreme Court directed the Assam government to start the deportation process of 63 foreigners currently lodged in the Matia transit camp in western Assam’s Goalpara district. This is the country’s largest detention camp and currently has 270 inmates. Before the Matia camp became operational in 2023, people declared as foreigners in Assam were lodged in six makeshift detention centres located in jails at Goalpara, Kokrajhar, Silchar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, and Tezpur. The Matia camp, which has the capacity to accommodate 3,000 inmates (each of its 15 buildings can house 200 people), was renamed in August 2021, along with all detention centres, as a “transit camp for detention purpose”. In January 2023, the first batch of 64 “declared foreigners” were shifted from the detention centre in Goalpara district jail to the Matia camp. The shifting of “declared foreigners” from the other five detention centres was completed on March 12, 2023, when the last batch of 87 inmates from the Silchar detention centre were transferred. ..."