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The building in Nerul identified by the previous government for the detention centre (Photo by K C Singh)

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Thackeray has said that his government will decide its stance on the execution of NRC in the state after the Supreme Court hears the matter on January 22.on Monday scrapped his predecessor’ decision to develop the state’s firstforin Navi Mumbai’s Nerul.Thackeray’s decision, coming at a time when the country is on the boil over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), indicates that his government may be the next to say no to NRC in the state.Mumbai Mirror was the first to report the government’s plan to develop the Nerul detention centre on the lines of Assam, the only state to have completed the NRC exercise, stripping 19 lakh people of citizenship.Those who have found themselves excluded in Assam have been given 90 days to appeal before Foreigners’ Tribunals. If their appeals fail, they will be sent to detention centres.Speaking to party leaders at Sena Bhavan, Thackeray said he will not allow any detention centres to come in the state under his watch.Non-BJP/NDA states like Kerala, Punjab, West Bengal, Orissa, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh have refused to implement the NRC, terming it unconstitutional. Uddhav Thackeray had said that his government will decide its stance after the Supreme Court hears the matter on January 22.The Nerul site where the Fadnavis government had proposed to start a detention centre currently lies vacant. It previously housed the Navi Mumbai Police’s Women Welfare Centre. The building was identified after the home department wrote to, the planning authority for Navi Mumbai, seeking a 3-acre plot for the detention centre.Thoughon Sunday distanced himself from NRC, saying no proposal to take up the exercise nationwide was discussed by his cabinet, he failed to explain statements byandon the imminent execution of NRC across the country.Sources in the previous government in the state had said the detention centre was not meant to be like a jail and would be developed on the basis of the ‘2019 Model Detention Manual’ issued by the Union government.According to the manual, every city or district, which has a major immigration check post, must have a detention centre. In the run-up to the 2019 general election, Shah, who was then the BJP chief, had promised to implement NRC across the country. The same promise was included in the BJP’s election manifesto too.