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Mohali Fire and Emergency Safety Guide

Mohali, officially Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, is a planned city of Punjab next to Chandigarh, with an Industrial Area, many paying guest buildings and fast new construction. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the city.

Checked 15 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone
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112Emergency 101Fire 108Ambulance 100Police
0172-2219211 Police Control RoomDistrict control room of the Mohali police, also 0172-2219212 1073 Traffic HelplineListed on the Mohali police website 1091 Women HelplineListed on the Mohali police website

112: Listed as the emergency number by Punjab Police and the Mohali police website. Works from any phone · 101: Listed on the district helpline page, which was last updated in 2019. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: Listed on the district helpline page, which was last updated in 2019. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Listed with 112 as the emergency helpline on the Mohali police website

Take these numbers with you

Print the Mohali 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 Mohali 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.

Local risks in Mohali

Building collapse in Sohana, December 2024

On the evening of 21 December 2024, a three storey building with a gym and paying guest rooms, and a basement, collapsed in Sohana village. Two people died, the rescue by NDRF, the Army and the police took about 23 hours, and the first inquiry pointed to unauthorised digging in a neighbouring plot.

Oxygen cylinder blast in Phase 9, August 2025

At about 9 am on 6 August 2025, oxygen cylinders exploded while being refilled at a plant in the Industrial Area, Phase 9. Two workers died and four were hurt, and the police registered a case of death by negligence.

Rain and waterlogging in the city, July 2023

After three days of rain in July 2023, a wall fell on a car in Phase 8. Residents of TDI City said they were without water and power for about 30 hours, and slum dwellers near Phase 6 and Badhmajra said about 2,000 people were surrounded by floodwater. The Ranimajra road was partly washed away.

Ghaggar river villages in the Dera Bassi belt

In the same July 2023 rain, about 50 villages along the Ghaggar in the Dera Bassi area were affected, and NDRF teams evacuated about 45 residents from Rurka. This belt lies on the edge of or beyond this guide's radius, but the same rain fills the city's drains.

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Mohali at a glance

Population
About 1.8 lakh people live in the city (Census 2011), and the district is much larger
Neighbours
Chandigarh is about 8 km north west of this centre and Zirakpur about 11 km south east, so those guides overlap this one
Police control room
The Mohali police district control room is on 0172 2219211
Industrial Area
Industrial Area phases include gas, chemical and factory units close to homes
Emergency system
Dial 112; fire is 101, ambulance 108 and police 100

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