LUCKNOW, Dec. 18 -- Threat of penalties have done little to improve the city's civic sense as plastic pollution, public littering and biomass burning continue to pose a major challenge here. In some cases, even enforcement has been under par.

As per official data, Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has collected Rs.68 lakh from hundreds of challans issued from April of this year till Wednesday.

A maximum of 4,340 challans were issued for littering. An amount of Rs.28.04 lakh was collected from them. Zone 5 recorded one of the lowest recoveries, collecting Rs.1.65 lakh from 494 challans, pointing to enforcement gaps at the zonal level.

To curb plastic pollution, LMC issued 2,324 challans and collected Rs.40.21 lakh through special driv...