Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaGurdaspur is the headquarters of a border district of Punjab, in the Majha region between the Beas and the Ravi, close to the Himachal foothills. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with a dated bazaar fire and the state's own flood and quake statements.
Checked 15 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Emergency police number printed on the Gurdaspur district website. Works from any phone · 101: Fire Brigade number on the Gurdaspur district disaster management page. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: Ambulance number on the Gurdaspur district disaster management page. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Police number on the Gurdaspur district disaster management page. Also reachable through 112
Print the Gurdaspur 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 Gurdaspur 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 15 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On a Sunday night in June 2024, six shops and showrooms were gutted near Hanuman Chowk in the middle of the city, and goods worth crores were lost. The cause was said to be an electrical short circuit, and the report noted that several shops and commercial establishments had been gutted in the previous six months.
After that fire, residents said the fire brigade office sits in one of the busiest parts of the city and engines struggle through narrow streets to reach a fire. The Deputy Commissioner ordered a probe by the SDM, and residents asked for the office to move near the new bus stand.
The state flood guidebook for 2026 shows flood inundation along the Ravi in Gurdaspur district on 27 August 2025, and says the district had 91 per cent more rain than normal in that monsoon, the second biggest excess in Punjab. The state plan also names the Ravi and the hill streams of Gurdaspur among the causes of flood damage.
The state disaster plan lists Gurdaspur among the northern districts liable to intensity VIII shaking. It adds that large quakes in Himachal Pradesh, 50 to 60 km from the state boundary, could cause moderate to heavy damage in Gurdaspur.
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