Dial 112 for any Emergency throughout India from 1 January 2017

From 1 January 2017112, the single emergency number that will help people to reach immediate services of police, ambulance and fire department will be operational throughout India.
•    The service will also be accessible even through those SIMs and landlines whose outgoing call facility has been stopped or temporarily suspended.
•    A person in distress will need to call only 112, which will direct the call to concerned departments immediately for help.
•    Services were approved by Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
•    9-1-1 is the emergency for the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), one of eightN11 codes. 
•    This number is intended for use in emergency circumstances only, and to use it for any other purpose (such as prank calls) can be a crime. 
•    In over 98 percent of locations in the United States and Canada, dialing "9-1-1" from any telephone will link the caller to an emergency dispatch center—called a Public-Safety Answering Point (PSAP), by the telecom industry—which can send emergency responders to the caller's location in an emergency.