Modi's million dollar challenge: How to fix Yogi Adityanath's UP?

Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state, is also its greatest challenge. It has about as many people as Brazil but, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself, suffers from development indicators more similar to sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else in Asia. Anyone who wants India to live up to its potential has to figure out how to fix UP. And that isn't going to be easy. You'd need somehow to turn investors positive on a state burdened by overstretched infrastructure, an unqualified workforce, endemic corruption, hours-long power cuts and widespread lawlessness.

Last week, the state’s chief minister, a controversial monk-turned-politician who