{"id":25987,"date":"2016-03-29T18:37:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T13:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=25987"},"modified":"2016-03-29T18:37:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T13:07:36","slug":"dial-112-for-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/dial-112-for-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Dial 112 for emergency! India gets its national emergency number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, you won\u2019t have to dial different numbers for availing emergency services like ambulance, police or fire force. The Telecom Commission has approved TRAI\u2019s recommendation for having 112 as the sole number for emergency services on Monday. As per the reports, the decision will be made into practice in a space of few months.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is similar to 911 emergency service in the US.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Currently, the public need to dial 102 for ambulance, 100 for police and 101 for fire force service. The implementation of single number for all emergency services will help the public in dealing the panic situations in an uncomplicated way. The implementation of single number won\u2019t bar the service of existing emergency numbers since they will be retained as secondary numbers as per the proposal of TRAI. Every call made to the secondary numbers will be automatically redirected to 112.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The secondary numbers will be withdrawn slowly once the frequency of calls gets reduced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The secondary numbers will be withdrawn slowly once the frequency of calls gets reduced. The striking feature of the new number is that anyone will be able to dial it from a landline\/mobile with outgoing call facility blocked or service temporarily withdrawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, you won\u2019t have to dial different numbers for availing emergency services like ambulance, police or fire force. The Telecom Commission has approved TRAI\u2019s recommendation for having 112 as the sole number for emergency services on Monday. As per the reports, the decision will be made into practice in a space of few months. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}