Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaUjjain is the temple city of Madhya Pradesh on the Kshipra river, home to the Mahakaleshwar temple and the next Simhastha fair, due in 2028. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the city.
Checked 2 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Madhya Pradesh single emergency number for police, fire and ambulance · 101: Fire number under the state 112 service. If it does not connect, call 112 · 108: The district portal also shows 102. If neither connects, call 112 · 100: Police emergency line, also reachable through 112
Print the Ujjain 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 Ujjain 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 2 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On the morning of 25 March 2024, during the Holi aarti in the Mahakaleshwar sanctum, a fire injured at least 14 priests and temple staff, and nine were reported critical and sent to Indore. Police suspected coloured powder falling on the lamp, and a magisterial inquiry followed.
Plans for the 2028 Simhastha include darshan arrangements for about one lakh devotees a day at Mahakal and about 60,000 police. A police audit has already marked crowd-sensitive areas, parking, railway stops and bus stands.
On 16 September 2023, over 5 inches of overnight rain and inflow from Indore and Dewas lifted the Kshipra until every temple at Ramghat was under water and the river stood about 1.5 feet below the large bridge. Low-lying areas were evacuated, SDRF and Home Guard teams were put at the ghat, and schools up to Class 12 were closed.
On the night of 31 October 2026 four workers died after going into a food-waste chamber behind a hotel on the Ujjain-Dewas Road, two to clean it and two to rescue them. The Superintendent of Police said none wore protective gear and suffocation is suspected; we cover it in a case study.
In November 2025 a state plan for 36 new fire stations named Ujjain among eight municipal corporations due to get one, with cabinet approval still pending then. We found no official list of the city's existing stations.
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