India, Dec. 3 -- Commissioners and inspector generals (IGs) in Uttar Pradesh have been directed to establish dedicated detention centres to house illegal immigrants identified during an ongoing verification drive, following chief minister Yogi Adityanath's orders to 17 urban local bodies (ULBs) to compile detailed lists of such individuals within their jurisdictions.

A senior home department official said the CM has directed 17 major cities or ULBs across the state - including Lucknow, Ayodhya, Kanpur, Jhansi, Varanasi, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Agra, Firozabad, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Prayagraj, Mathura, Aligarh, Moradabad, Saharanpur and Shahjahanpur - to hand over lists of Rohingya and Bangladeshi nationals currently working or employed within ...