A senior government official told PTI,
The single emergency number '112' will be operational from January 1, 2017.Telecom Minister Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad has also approved the provision of the single emergency number for all emergency services that would we similar to US emergency service number '911' .
The service would be accessible even through all the SIM cards and Landline whose outgoing call facility is stopped or temporarily suspended.
Whenever a person dials to 112 emergency service number, will be redirected to the concerned department immediately for help. At present different emergency numbers are police (100), fire department (101), ambulance (102) and disaster department (108).
From January 1, all the mobile phones will have a panic button and GPS navigation system. Users need to feed '112' as a panic button number to dial in any emergency.
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