Calls by the single number 112 are received at zero or negative balance

Presidium members of the RT State Council led by the Chairman Farid Mukhametshin visited the Kazan IT-park to get familiar with the unified system of emergency services GLONASS+112. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of informatization and communications Roman Shaikhutdinov told about the system.

He said that the system infrastructure includes two call centers in Kazan and Naberezhnye Chelny. 60 operators who receive calls by the number 112 work in the system simultaneously. They make a single call card and pass information to services «01», «02», «03» and «04».

The center was founded to provide immediate and well-coordinated response to emergency situations. This year 30 mln roubles were allocated for funding of GLONASS+112 system.

Roman Shaikhutdinov addressed deputies with request to get involved in the project “People’s control”. He mentioned that the RT Cabinet was defined as an authorized institution on work in the system.

Members of the Tatarstan Parliament asked several questions and expressed their opinions regarding improvement of GLONASS+112 system.

Farid Mukhametshin highly estimated prospects of the unified system of emergency services. The Tatarstan Minister of civil defence and emergency situations, Chief of the main department of the Russian Ministry of emergency situations on RT Rafis Khabibullin participated in the event.