Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaAshoknagar is the district headquarters in north-central Madhya Pradesh, between the Betwa and Sindh rivers, with Shivpuri to the north and Guna to the west. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the town and the district.
Checked 15 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: National emergency number for police, fire and ambulance. Works from any phone · 101: Printed on the Ashoknagar district website as the fire service number. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: Printed on the Ashoknagar district website. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Printed on the Ashoknagar district website. If it does not connect, call 112
Print the Ashoknagar emergency card for the fridge or the front door, and cut out the wallet cards. It holds 112, 101, the ambulance and police numbers. This guide has no local numbers yet, so there are blank lines to write your local fire station, police station and nearest hospital, and your family contacts.
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Checked 15 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On 22 July 2024 about 130 mm of rain fell from 3 am in the Mungawali area, flooding Kukawali, Gaduli and Dhuder, with over 60 homes under water and people on their rooftops. The Kukawali bridge on National Highway 346 stayed under about three feet of water for over two hours, a part of it eroded, and the highway was shut for long.
At about 9 pm on 25 October 2025 a nearly full sleeper bus from Pichhore to Indore caught fire near Bamanawar village on Isagarh Road and was reduced to ashes. Everyone got out safely, but the first fire engine ran out of water and a second had to be called; a short circuit was suspected.
On 25 July 2025 a labourer crossing a drain at Moodra village and a two and a half year old child playing near a drain at Sonakhedi village were swept away within 24 hours. The district SDRF team recovered both bodies.
On the morning of 12 December 2024 a Scorpio with six people on the road between Bina and Ashoknagar overturned three times after a tyre burst and then caught fire. Police and firefighters pulled out a trapped passenger who was referred to Bhopal, and the other five had minor injuries.
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