LUCKNOW, Feb. 1 -- Even as crores are spent on cleaning and beautifying the Gomti, garbage continues to find its way to the riverbank. An open dumping site near Jhulelal Vatika in Lucknow has resurfaced, highlighting gaps in monitoring and post-event waste management.

Despite repeated cleanliness drives and direct interventions by the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) and other agencies to rejuvenate the Gomti, the ground reality tells a different story. Large quantities of waste were found dumped openly along the riverbank near Jhulelal Vatika, opposite Chhatar Manzil, on Saturday.

Notably, the dumping point lies close to the Katki Mela venue. Even weeks after the event, the ground remains littered with waste. Plastic waste, disposab...