BHOPAL: The ambitious public response system Dial-100 will be history in coming days as the police department has started working on a new Single Number Based Integrated Emergency Communication and Response System, Dial-112.
To control law-break situation and to give proper response to the needy, the government had launched the Dial-100 programme in November 2015. After five years of successful run, the programme will end in 2020. SP Amit Saxena said the Centre had planned ISEN-112, under which all other services like Dial- 100,102,108,101 will be connected to 112. Now emergency management, fire services, medical emergency and police services will be available under one number Dial-112. In March a meeting was conducted and to prepare for the programme many important points were discussed. The Centre has allocated Rs 14.56 crore for the development measures needed for the implementation of the new system.
Rising numbers
In February 2016, around 21,000 calls were made to the control room. Almost every month around 4,000 calls are adding and in the month of March 2017, more than 72,000 calls were received by Dial-100.
