Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaRajim is a temple town in Gariaband district, Chhattisgarh, where the Mahanadi, Pairi and Sondur rivers meet. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, each with a dated example from Rajim or Gariaband district.
Checked 9 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. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: Listed as the ambulance number on the Gariaband district website. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Listed as the police number on the Gariaband district website, also reachable through 112
Print the Rajim 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 Rajim 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 9 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On the night of 8 to 9 November 2026, Diwali night, a car carrying four members of one family went into the Mahanadi at the Tila anicut near Rajim, and all four died. Police said the cause is under investigation, and reports differ on whether the family was heading to a village or back to Rajim.
On 31 July 2026 the Mahanadi, Pairi and Sondur ran full after days of rain, and flood water reached the sanctum of the island temple at the Rajim sangam, which local elders said had not happened in 10 to 12 years. Police barricaded the routes to the river and the district asked people not to cross flooded rivers, bridges or culverts.
In the same spell of rain, the Sukha river rose over a bridge on the Chhura to Bagbahara road, and villages in Chhura block were cut off from Gariaband. Police closed both ends of the bridge so that nobody tried to cross.
On the first day of Sawan, 31 July 2026, thousands of visitors came to Rajim from Raipur, Durg, Bhilai, Bilaspur and Mahasamund, and police put bamboo barricades on the routes to the river. The Maghi Punni Mela is a fair of about two weeks held at the same meeting of rivers; the 2022 fair began on 16 February.
On 16 March 2022, a truck and a tractor-trolley carrying about 40 people home from a function collided head on on National Highway 130C near Joba village, about 8 km from Gariaband town. At least five people died and more than 20 were hurt.
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