MUMBAI: The Union home affairs ministry has issued a model detention centre manual to Maharashtra, and the state government is in the process of taking possession of a temporary detention centre while the process of identifying land for a permanent detention centre is on, a senior bureaucrat told TOI.The issue was recently raised in the Lok Sabha by Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant, who sought information on whether the ministry of home affairs has issued a model detention centre manual for states, the number of operational detention centres, number of individuals currently detained in these centres, capacity of these centres and the number of under-construction centres and whether MHA has asked state governments to set up detention centres.In a written reply, junior home minister Nityanand Rai said that in keeping with the directions of the Supreme Court, the home ministry has prepared a model detention centre/holding camp manual in consultation with stakeholders and it was circulated to all state governments.The manual covers legal provisions with regard to detention and deportation of a foreign national, categories of persons who may be detained and amenities to be provided in these detention centres. “Detention centres are set up by the state governments as per their requirement to detail illegal immigrants, who have completed their sentence pending deportation to their native country,” Rai said in his reply. “So far, no illegal migrant has been detained in Maharashtra,” the senior bureaucrat told TOI.