Meghalayachief secretaryRV Suchianginaugurated the nationwide emergency response system (NERS)/emergency response support system (ERSS) or Dial 112.
It is an endeavour of the Union Home ministry to launch a unified response system with a single number for all kinds of emergencies and distress signals from citizens in the form of voice call, SMS, e-mail, panic SOS request, web request and so on.
All these distress signals are sent to the common number 112, the automated facility envisaged to be set up for this purpose in the capital cities of all states and Union Territories to handle all distress signals and provide assistance available to the people in distress within the best possible time. Henceforth, all the existing emergency numbers like 100 (Police), 101 (fire and rescue) and 108 (ambulance), 181 (Women and child care) etc, will be integrated to unified number 112.