Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaBetul is the district headquarters in southern Madhya Pradesh, a railway junction town surrounded by hills, with coal mines and rivers in the district. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from 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: The national fire number. The Betul district website does not print a fire number. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: The national ambulance number, printed on other Madhya Pradesh district websites. The Betul district website does not print it. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Printed on the Betul district website. Also reachable through 112
Print the Betul 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.
At about 3 pm on 6 March 2025 the roof of an underground coal mine about 65 km from the district headquarters collapsed on three workers. Early reports said three men died, although the same account said two were pulled out and taken to hospital while one was still trapped.
At about 7 am on 27 October 2024 a tractor trolley carrying labourers home from Betul railway station overturned at Hanuman Dol on the Betul Parasia road. Two people died and twelve were hurt, and the collector said 21 people had been on the trolley.
At 9.20 am on 23 November 2025 a short circuit started a fire in a storeroom of the Betul district hospital kitchen. Staff cut the power and used extinguishers to control it in about 10 minutes, and patients from the women's and children's wards were moved out as a precaution.
On the evening of 29 June 2026 two men on a motorcycle tried to cross a flooded culvert over the Champa river near Devpur Kotmi village, although villagers asked them to wait. The current swept them away and both were found dead about a kilometre downstream the next morning.
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