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Karnataka Fire And Emergency Services
The Karnataka Fire and Emergency Services Department is a department of the Government of Karnataka that is the foremost disaster management body in Karnataka, India. Background All buildings in the state are required to obtain a compliance certificate for fire safety from the department. The department has the right to recommend the withdrawal of licences to commercial structures that do not have proper fire fighting equipment on their premises. The department has a sanctioned strength of 6,448 personnel. In 2009, the government announced that all taluks in the state would have fire stations. As of 2011, the department had 168 fire stations across Karnataka, while 31 more were sanctioned in 2012. In 2011, Infosys built a fire station at Hebbal, Mysore at a cost of 45 million for the department. The department also owns rescue vans in Bangalore, Mangalore, Gulbarga, Mysore, Mandya, Chamrjanagar, and Hassan. The department owns a pumper that was built by Dennis Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Karnataka (; ISO 15919, ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnataka'' in 1973. The state corresponds to the Carnatic region. Its capital and largest city is Bangalore, Bengaluru. Karnataka is bordered by the Lakshadweep Sea to the west, Goa to the northwest, Maharashtra to the north, Telangana to the northeast, Andhra Pradesh to the east, Tamil Nadu to the southeast, and Kerala to the southwest. It is the only southern state to have land borders with all of the other four southern Indian sister states. The state covers an area of , or 5.83 percent of the total geographical area of India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, sixth-largest Indian state by area. With 61,13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
