Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaTarapith is a temple town on the Dwarka river in Birbhum district, West Bengal, about 7 km from Rampurhat. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the town.
Checked 27 Oct 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Single emergency number. If a service line does not connect, call 112 · 101: State fire service number. If it does not connect, call 112 · 108: National ambulance number. For any medical emergency, call 112 first · 100: Police number, also reachable through 112
Print the Tarapith (Rampurhat area) 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 Tarapith (Rampurhat area) 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 27 October 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On 27 October 2026, at about 3.51 am, a fire started on a bed in a room of a large lodge on the Rampurhat road; police and a fire engine arrived in about five minutes and 12 guests were brought out with no one reported hurt. Black smoke still filled other rooms, as we cover in a case study.
On 17 August 2026 a predawn fire in a four-storey Tarapith hotel killed eight people in some reports and nine in others, so the toll differs. Some guests said an emergency exit and the roof door were locked, and the district then ordered an audit of fire-fighting and wiring in the town's hotels and lodges.
Before Kaushiki Amavasya in September 2026, the sub-division withdrew closure orders for 15 hotels in Chandipur, Tarapith, and gave them two months to get fire safety certificates and wiring checks. A pilgrim cannot see these papers, so check the exits and the staircase yourself when you check in.
More than six lakh pilgrims were expected for Kaushiki Amavasya on 10 September 2026, and a special train ran from Howrah to Rampurhat for the days around it. Kali Puja has also drawn long queues of devotees at the temple, and the roads and lanes near the temple fill up on these nights.
The temple town stands on the bank of the Dwarka. The district keeps a flood control room open round the clock in the monsoon, with flood shelters and boats ready in its flood-prone blocks.
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