Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaBhanjanagar is a town in Ganjam district of Odisha, below the hills that mark the Kandhamal border, with G. Udayagiri about 31 km to the north-west. This guide puts the emergency numbers, the Bhanjanagar fire station and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the town and the hills around it.
Checked 2 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Odisha single emergency number for police, fire and ambulance · 101: State fire number. If it does not connect, call 112 · 108: Free emergency ambulance service in Odisha · 100: Also reachable through 112
Print the Bhanjanagar (Ganjam) emergency card for the fridge or the front door, and cut out the wallet cards. It holds 112, 101, the ambulance and police numbers, and the Bhanjanagar (Ganjam) fire, disaster and civic numbers from this guide. There are blank lines for your family contacts and the nearest hospital.
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Checked 2 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
Heavy rain from Cyclone Arnab brought a landslide down on the hilltop hamlet of Gidipabali, in Bhanjanagar block on the Kandhamal border, on the night of 28 October 2026. About 26 people lived there and 13 had moved out; news reached officials only two days later, and by 1 November two bodies were found and 10 people were missing, with the toll still changing. We cover it in a case study.
The Ganjam district disaster plan lists rural roads in Bhanjanagar block that go under water in the rains, with floods in the Lohara Khandi and Badanadi rivers and low land near the embankments. It names flood, drought, cyclone, heat wave and lightning as the main hazards of the district.
On 12 March 2023 a fire at Brahmanidevi village, near Bhanjanagar, burned down 30 houses and left 11 families homeless. The district plan notes that thatched houses in rural areas are open to fire.
On 27 December 2020 a wild elephant killed a farmer working in his field at Nuapalli village in the Mujagada forest range, with 18 elephants still in the fields at the time. Herds come out of the forest to the crops here, and farm work at dusk and dawn is the dangerous time.
1 stations. Tap Call to ring the station office.
| Station | Area | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Bhanjanagar Fire Station | Ganjam district · Bhanjanagar | Call06821-241090 |
The district disaster plan lists 21 fire stations for Ganjam, and only the Bhanjanagar station is shown here because its phone line is clear in the plan. A station also exists at G. Udayagiri in Kandhamal, but no number for it was found. In an emergency, call 112 or 101 first; station lines are office numbers.
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