DJ nights, cultural programmes and exotic cuisine are lined up for Kolkata to bid farewell to the old year and ring in 2014.
Most five stars hotels of Kolkata will have poolside parties and provide buffet dinners with champagne and premium scotch.
Music compered by DJs with belly dancers imported from the middle east would ensure that the festivities continue past the stroke of midnight at the star hotels.
Hundreds of people thronged upscale Park Street decorated with scintillating lights since Christmas, to welcome the New Year.
On the security front, 5,000 policemen were on duty with watch maintained at 100 crossings to keep a lookout for high speed bikers. Around 1,000 policemen in mufti and women police were also on patrol.
