The 2025-26 annual budget of the Gujarat government has proposed setting up of a uniform fire prevention service for the state that will give the fire department more power to tackle “impediments” in their work
BY APRIL 2026, the Gujarat government plans to subsume the fire services of all 150 municipalities across the state into the Gujarat State Fire Prevention Services (GSFPS). This is part of what Finance Minister Kanu Desai described in his 2025-26 budget speech as the new ‘Ek Rajya, Ek Cadre (One State, One Cadre)’ policy, to be adopted by the state government for the consolidation of the fire services.
According to the budget document, “To make the process of dousing fires more effective it is necessary to source help from different agencies. To make the process easier, and get the situation under control, the (fire) personnel have to take the help of police for which they need to be empowered to handle the obstacles in this process.”
