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Akhilesh dials 100 to win hearts and votes

The 3,200 brand new Police Control Room (PCR) vehicles have become a mascot of the CM's promise

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Akhilesh Yadav

Karan Choudhury Ayodhya (Faizabad, UP)

Last Updated : Feb 20 2017 | 1:15 AM IST

Till a few months earlier, 23-year-old Ashlesha Mishra rushed back home from her job as a computer operator for an exporter by 6 pm.

Anything later and father would start calling her, furiously worried, “It’s unsafe in the evening, he would simply say,” she recalls.

Cut to now and she breathes much easier, as her curfew has been extended by an hour and a half, “That is a lot for a place like Faizabad,” she smiles.

For her and the women in Uttar Pradesh, the new sense of security is courtesy Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s much-mentioned Rs 2,325 crore ‘UP-100’ project. While the

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