Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaJagdalpur is the headquarters of Bastar district in southern Chhattisgarh, on the Indravati river, with a main market and low lying areas along the water. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the city and the district.
Checked 15 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Chhattisgarh's integrated emergency number for police, fire and medical calls. Works from any phone · 101: Fire and rescue number printed on the state helpline page. If it does not connect, call 112 · 108: Health department number on the state helpline page. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Police control room number. Also reachable through 112
Print the Jagdalpur 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 Jagdalpur 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 29 September 2026 the Indravati rose to 12.39 m at Jagdalpur, above the old high of 12.18 m from 1973, against a danger level of 8.3 m. Water entered parts of the city, 833 people were rescued in a day, and 8,894 people stayed in 65 relief camps.
In October 2026 an Air Force helicopter lifted 12 people, two women and three children among them, from a kutcha hut on the north bank of the Indravati near Dongaghat, where they had been stranded overnight. Do not stay in a low hut on the bank once the water starts rising.
On 26 August 2025 heavy rain flooded the rivers and streams of Bastar, and a car crossing a culvert on the Kanger Nala near the Kanger Valley National Park was swept away, killing four members of a family. More than 100 villages in Bastar were cut off from the district headquarters after two days of rain.
In a report dated 4 August 2026, a fire in a closed book depot near the bank at Anupama Chowk spread fast through notebooks and paper stock and reached the second floor. Rescue teams had to break the shutter, the fire brigade took about two hours, and a short circuit was suspected.
In November 2026 a scrap shop full of plastic on Geedam Road, in a residential area, caught fire late at night. Three fire vehicles worked hard to control it and stopped it reaching nearby houses and shops.
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