{"id":432422,"date":"2026-07-11T12:58:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T07:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=432422"},"modified":"2026-07-11T12:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T07:13:56","slug":"government-introduces-disaster-hotline-1234-for-faster-rescue-and-emergency-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/07\/11\/432422.html","title":{"rendered":"Government introduces disaster hotline 1234 for faster rescue and emergency assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>The Home Ministry has launched the disaster hotline 1234 in all 77 districts to make disaster reporting, rescue coordination and emergency services faster and more effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Ministry, the previously used toll-free number 1149 has been replaced by 1234.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calls made to 1234 from Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur will be handled by the National Emergency Operation Centre at Singha Durbar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calls from the remaining 74 districts will be automatically routed to the respective District Emergency Operation Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry said the new system will enable people to directly report disaster-related incidents, seek assistance, lodge complaints and obtain information through their district emergency operation centres, helping improve the speed and effectiveness of emergency response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The service has been introduced in line with the government&#8217;s policy of making public service delivery more efficient, accountable and results-oriented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry has urged the public to follow official disaster warnings and advisories and to call 1234 whenever emergency assistance is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Home Ministry has launched the disaster hotline 1234 in all 77 districts to make disaster reporting, rescue coordination and emergency services faster and more effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":432423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-432422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432424,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432422\/revisions\/432424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432422"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=432422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}