Women Powerline 1090

The much awaited service of the Women Powerline 1090 call centre will be inaugurated by UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on November 15 as a Bhaiyya Dooj gift to ‘sisters of the state’ at the chief minister's 5, Kalidas Marg residence. The inauguration is scheduled at 11.00 am. Around five women constables and five male constables in the prescribed uniform dark grey trouser, sky-blue shirt and navy-blue blazer would be present at the inaugural function.
Unlike the emergency police and fire service of dial 100 and 101, the women powerline number will not be toll-free though the service is at normal, applicable call rates. Reason being, claim officials, that it is not an emergency service and secondly it will help restrict hoax calls made on the number. According to a rough estimate, only 10 per cent of the calls made to city control room dial 100 service are genuine and worth taking action.
At Lucknow control room, out of on an average 1,500 calls, only 150 are worth taking cognizance.
At present, the total staff strength of the women powerline centre would be a total of 45 women constables, 25 male constables, two women sub-inspectors and two male constables. Besides, of course, the overall supervision of the project is being done by DIG (range) Navniet Sekera. Also in the panel of officers behind the project are superintendent of police (intelligence) Sacchi Ghildiyal, radio maintenance officer (RMO) Raghvendra Pratap Singh and others.
Unlike previous plan of running the service 24X7, it has been decided to run it in three shifts of six hours each. While the first shift will be from 8am to 2pm, the second shift will be from 2pm to 8am and the third from 8pm to 2am. Reason for three shifts said sources was the fact that it was not an emergency number.
By November 14, officials expect all mobile operators to route 1090 through their network which can enable users to call on the number from anywhere in UP and subsequently the call landing at the Lucknow call centre's office at Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Samajik Pariwartan Sthal Prashashnik Bhawan-2.