NEW DELHI: Braving chilly weather and serious air air pollution, hundreds of Delhiites, soaked in festive spirit, thronged restaurants, pubs and department shops and lounged in open public spaces at India Gate and Connaught Place to have fun the New Year with police last on the toes to avert any untoward incident.
Celebrations largely remained non violent in the city on Tuesday, alternatively, an eight-year-old boy died of bullet injuries he suffered all through celebrations on December 31 night time in northeast Delhi's Usmanpur area, police said.
Though mercury was once on the decrease aspect, the sun shone shiny all through the day, as large gatherings had been witnessed at main markets and widespread birthday party hotspots, together with Saket Select City Walk, Nehru Place, Khan Market, Rajouri Garden and Connaught Place. This led to choked roads and gradual traffic movements around the city. Vehicles parked alongside roads additionally added to the woes of commuters.
The swelling crowd induced the Delhi Metro to close go out facilities at four main stations in central Delhi, together with those at Pragati Maidan and Central Secretariat.
Exits at four stations -- Central Secretariat, Udyog Bhavan, Mandi House and Pragati Maidan metro stations -- had been closed since afternoon because of swelling crowd, a DMRC legitimate said, adding commonplace operations had been restored round 7:30 pm.
Police said round 75,000-80,000 folks collected at India Gate lawns which caused heavy congestion in and around the area.
Buses going towards India Gate had been diverted as a measure to keep an eye on the situation, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Alok Kumar said.
"Traffic remained heavy in places like India Gate, Delhi Zoo, Hanuman Mandir near Connaught Place, Kalkaji Temple, Birla Mandir, Gurdwara Bangla Sahib and Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib. The stretch from the Ring Road which goes towards the zoo was closed for a brief period during the afternoon because of high pedestrian movement," Kumar added.
Mayuri Sharma, a B.Sc. pupil, complained about traffic congestion as it took her more than an hour-and-a-half to hide an eight km distance. "The traffic was really bad and it seemed a huge number of citizens were out in the streets, heading towards central Delhi to celebrate the New Year," she said.
India Gate and Connaught Place are widespread hangout spaces for folks, on special occasions and otherwise.
With minimum temperature settling at four degrees Celsius, many revellers indulged in indoor celebrations hosted at quite a lot of accommodations, department shops, restaurants, pubs and farmhouses. However, air high quality of town oscillated between 'very deficient' and 'serious' causing some discomfort.
Police on Monday had recommended visitors, heading out for celebrations, to use public transport as there's an acute scarcity of car parking zone at India Gate.
The security arrangements at main markets and crowded locations had been beefed up to verify celebrations move off smoothly with special traffic arrangements made to keep an eye on pedestrian movements, police said.
Security round central Delhi was once heightened with emphasis on striking a take a look at on stunt bikers and folks resorting to drunken-driving, a senior police legitimate said.
Over 500 drunken revellers, maximum of them youngsters, had been penalised through the Delhi Police on New Year's eve, officials said. A total of 509 challans had been issued for drunken-driving cases till Tuesday morning.
In every other incident, a 12-year-old boy was once shot at all through New Year celebrations at round 12:30 am on the intervening night time of Monday and Tuesday in northeast Delhi's Welcome area, police said.
The boy sustained a gunshot damage in his shoulder. He was once admitted to Jag Pravesh Chandra (JPC) clinic clinic from where he was once later referred to Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital, the officer said, adding, the boy is now out of risk.
Celebrations largely remained non violent in the city on Tuesday, alternatively, an eight-year-old boy died of bullet injuries he suffered all through celebrations on December 31 night time in northeast Delhi's Usmanpur area, police said.
Though mercury was once on the decrease aspect, the sun shone shiny all through the day, as large gatherings had been witnessed at main markets and widespread birthday party hotspots, together with Saket Select City Walk, Nehru Place, Khan Market, Rajouri Garden and Connaught Place. This led to choked roads and gradual traffic movements around the city. Vehicles parked alongside roads additionally added to the woes of commuters.
The swelling crowd induced the Delhi Metro to close go out facilities at four main stations in central Delhi, together with those at Pragati Maidan and Central Secretariat.
Exits at four stations -- Central Secretariat, Udyog Bhavan, Mandi House and Pragati Maidan metro stations -- had been closed since afternoon because of swelling crowd, a DMRC legitimate said, adding commonplace operations had been restored round 7:30 pm.
Police said round 75,000-80,000 folks collected at India Gate lawns which caused heavy congestion in and around the area.
Buses going towards India Gate had been diverted as a measure to keep an eye on the situation, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Alok Kumar said.
"Traffic remained heavy in places like India Gate, Delhi Zoo, Hanuman Mandir near Connaught Place, Kalkaji Temple, Birla Mandir, Gurdwara Bangla Sahib and Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib. The stretch from the Ring Road which goes towards the zoo was closed for a brief period during the afternoon because of high pedestrian movement," Kumar added.
Mayuri Sharma, a B.Sc. pupil, complained about traffic congestion as it took her more than an hour-and-a-half to hide an eight km distance. "The traffic was really bad and it seemed a huge number of citizens were out in the streets, heading towards central Delhi to celebrate the New Year," she said.
India Gate and Connaught Place are widespread hangout spaces for folks, on special occasions and otherwise.
With minimum temperature settling at four degrees Celsius, many revellers indulged in indoor celebrations hosted at quite a lot of accommodations, department shops, restaurants, pubs and farmhouses. However, air high quality of town oscillated between 'very deficient' and 'serious' causing some discomfort.
Police on Monday had recommended visitors, heading out for celebrations, to use public transport as there's an acute scarcity of car parking zone at India Gate.
The security arrangements at main markets and crowded locations had been beefed up to verify celebrations move off smoothly with special traffic arrangements made to keep an eye on pedestrian movements, police said.
Security round central Delhi was once heightened with emphasis on striking a take a look at on stunt bikers and folks resorting to drunken-driving, a senior police legitimate said.
Over 500 drunken revellers, maximum of them youngsters, had been penalised through the Delhi Police on New Year's eve, officials said. A total of 509 challans had been issued for drunken-driving cases till Tuesday morning.
In every other incident, a 12-year-old boy was once shot at all through New Year celebrations at round 12:30 am on the intervening night time of Monday and Tuesday in northeast Delhi's Welcome area, police said.
The boy sustained a gunshot damage in his shoulder. He was once admitted to Jag Pravesh Chandra (JPC) clinic clinic from where he was once later referred to Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital, the officer said, adding, the boy is now out of risk.
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