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| New Year revellers celebrate end of 2011 and herald in 2012 with fireworks, late night parties | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Dec 31: Times flies but senses today found it difficult to believe that it was the last day of the year 2011 which started only recently. This is the time when people start writing down their New Year resolutions and reflect on the year that is about to finish. They prepare for the new year by setting personal and professional goals.
This is also the time of celebrations. Thousands, including young boys and girls, tonight thronged the city hotels and clubs to celebrate the end of 2011 and herald in 2012.
Welcoming the new year with fireworks, they attended late night parties and danced to make memorable the last day of 2011 and the first day of 2012.
Hotels, clubs, restaurants, shopping malls, government buildings and rotaries had been tastefully decorated and illuminated to mark the colorful celebrations.
Heavy deployment of police was made in the city and its peripheral areas to ensure that the celebrations passed off peacefully. Cops could be seen outside hotels and other buildings where new year celebrations were on. Security was also stepped up around police and security forces' installations.
A senior police officer said police had intensified night patrolling at various locations in the city on the new year eve. All the field officers and beat cops had been instructed to make proper security arrangements and remain more vigilant to avoid any untoward incident.
Five years, or so back, drunk revellers had blocked the Tawi bridge to vehicular traffic after midnight and created noisy scenes on Residency Road. In a fight between some drunk persons, a youth was murdered and a police cop wounded critically on the Residency Road.
The officer said this time, no one would be allowed to make celebrations on the roads, or on the bridge as such things ultimately led to bloody fights.
The territorial officers were directed to ensure effective presence and deployment of police at all the places in and around the city. The cops had been asked to be courteous with general public and tough with trouble creaters, he added.
However, special alert was being maintained alongwith the border belt in liaison with other forces to ensure that any effort to sneak into this side by Pak-based militants was foiled, the officer said.
There was, however, another set of people who avoided attending parties and dance clubs. They left for the holy cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi in Trikuta Hills of Katra this evening. They wanted to begin the new year with a glimpse of the goddess.
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