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Bank Holidays 2024

Author: Aditya Chakraborty | Updated Wed, 28 Jun 2023 10:14 AM IST

The special AstroSage article of Bank Holidays 2024 is providing fine details of bank holidays given by the State Government, Central Government, and the Union Territories. These bank holidays 2024 are declared under the Negotiable Instruments Act, of 1881. It is the work-off day for personnel working in the banking sector.

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In India, almost every alternate day there is a festival or fast, and in such a situation, there are festivals whose public holidays are declared early. Like the festival holidays, the bank holidays are the days in which bank employees spend stress-free time with family on the leaves. The list of bank holidays 2024 in India assists the employees plan for vacation time. It also informs the customers of leaves across banks in the country. The general public is able to complete banking activities early or within specific bank working days. It is vital to keep in mind that all public holidays are not bank holidays and the bank holidays are specially declared by the government authorities. Let us move ahead and find out which are bank holidays across months and states in the year 2024:

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Bank Holidays 2024

Date	Day	Holiday	States/Union Territories
1 January	Monday	New Year	Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Sikkim, and Tamil Nadu
2 January	Tuesday	New Year Leave	Mizoram
2 January	Tuesday	Mannan Jayanti	Kerala
11 January	Thursday	Missionary Divas	Mizoram
12 January	Friday	Swami Vivekananda Jayanti	West Bengal
15 January	Monday	Magh Bihu	Assam
15 January	Monday	Makar Sankranti	Gujarat, Karnataka, Sikkim, and Telangana
15 January	Monday	Pongal	Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Puddichury, and Tamil Nadu
16 January	Tuesday	Kanuma Festival	Andhra Pradesh
16 January	Tuesday	Thiruvalluvar Day	Tamil Nadu
17 January	Wednesday	Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti	Chandigarh, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Odisha, Punjab, and Rajasthan
17 January	Wednesday	Uzhavar Thirunal	Pudichury and Tamil Nadu
23 January	Tuesday	Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Birth Anniversary	Jharkhand, Odisha, Tripura, and West Bengal
23 January	Tuesday	Gaan-Nagai	Manipur
25 January	Thursday	Hazrat Ali Jayanti	Uttar Pradesh
25 January	Thursday	Statehood Day	Himachal Pradesh
26 January	Friday	Republic Day	National Holiday
10 February	Saturday	Losar	Sikkim
10 February	Saturday	Soman Losar	Sikkim
14 February	Wednesday	Vasant Panchami	Haryana, Odisha, Tripura, and West Bengal
15 February	Thursday	Louis Ngai Ni	Manipur
19 February	Monday	Shivaji Jayanti	Maharashtra
20 February	Tuesday	Statehood Day	Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram
24 February	Saturday	Guru Ravidas Jayanti	Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, and Punjab
5 March	Tuesday	Panchayati Raj Day	Odisha
8 March	Friday	Mahashivratri	National Holiday -Leaving Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Goa. Assam, Lakshyadip, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Puddichury, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal
22 March	Friday	Bihar Day	Bihar
23 March	Saturday	Martyrdom Day of Bhagat Singh	Haryana
25 March	Monday	Holi	All States Except Karnataka, Kerala, Lashyadip, Manipur, Pudichury, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal
25 March	Monday	Dol Purnima	West Bengal
25 March	Monday	Spring Festival of Manipur	Manipur
26 March	Tuesday	Manipur’s Spring Festival Day 2	Manipur
29 March	Friday	Good Friday	All States Leaving Haryana Jammu & Kashmir
30 March	Saturday	Holy Saturday	Nagaland
31 March	Sunday	Easter Sunday	Kerala and Nagaland
1 April	Monday	Odhisa Day	Odisha
5 April	Friday	Babu Jagjivan Ram Jayanti	Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
5 April	Friday	Jumatul Vida	Jammu Kashmir
7 April	Sunday	Shab-e-Barat	Jammu Kashmir
9 April	Tuesday	Gudi Padwa Festival	Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh
9 April	Tuesday	Telugu New Year	Tamil Nadu
9 April	Tuesday	Ugadi	Andhra Pradesh, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Goa. Gujarat, Jammu Kashmir, Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Telangana
10 April	Wednesday	Eid-ul-Fitr	National Holiday
11 April	Thursday	Eid al-Fitr Holidays	Telangana
11 April	Thursday	Sarhul	Jharkhand
13 April	Saturday	Bihu Festival Holidays	Assam
13 April	Saturday	Maha Vishuba Sankranti	Odisha
13 April	Saturday	Vaishakh	Jammu Kashmir and Punjab
14 April	Sunday	Bengali New Year	Tripura and West Bengal
14 April	Sunday	Bihu Festival	Arunachal Pradesh and Assam
14 April	Sunday	Cheiraoba Festival	Manipur
14 April	Sunday	Ambedkar Jayanti	All Regions Except Andaman Nicobar, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chandigarh, Dadar and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Delhi, Lakshaydweep, Manpur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura
14 April	Sunday	Tamil New Year	Tamil Nadu
14 April	Sunday	Vihu	Kerala
15 April	Monday	Himachal Day	Himachal Pradesh
17 April	Wednesday	Ram Navami	All States Excluding Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Manipur, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, and West Bengal
21 April	Sunday	Garia Puja	Tripura
21 April	Sunday	Mahavir Jayanti	Chattisgarh, Chandigarh, Daman & Diu, Delhi, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Laskhyadio, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh
1 May	Wednesday	Maharashtra Day	Maharashtra
1 May	Wednesday	May Day	Assam, Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Pudichery, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, and West Bengal
8 May	Wednesday	Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti	Tripura and West Bengal
10 May	Friday	Basava Jayanti	Karnataka
10 May	Friday	Maharishi Parshuram Jayanti	Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, and Rajasthan
16 May	Thursday	Statehood Day	Sikkim
23 May	Thursday	Buddha Jayanti	Andaman Nicobar, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chattisgarh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jammu Kashmir, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Odisha, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal
24 May	Friday	Kai Nazrul Islam Birth Anniversary	Tripura
9 June	Sunday	Maharana Pratap Jayanti	Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, and Rajasthan
10 June	Monday	Shri Guru Arjun Dev Martyrdom Day	Punjab
14 June	Friday	First King Festival	Odisha
15 June	Saturday	Raja Sankranti	Odisha
15 June	Saturday	Yma Day	Mizoram
17 June	Monday	Eid-Ul-Adha (Bakrid)	All States Except Arunachal Pradesh, Chadigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, and Sikkim
18 June	Tuesday	Eid-Ul-Adha (Bakrid) Holidays	Jammu Kashmir
22 June	Saturday	Sant Kabir Jayanti	Chattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjab
30 June	Sunday	Remna Ni	Mizoram
5 July	Friday	Guru Hargobind Jayanti	Jammu Kashmir
6 July	Saturday	MHIP Divas	Mizoram
7 July	Sunday	Rathyatra	Odisha
8 July	Monday	Bednikham Festival	Meghalaya
13 July	Saturday	Bhanu Jayanti	Sikkim
13 July	Saturday	Sahid Divas	Jammu Kashmir
17 July	Wednesday	Muharram	All States Except Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, and Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, Haryana, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Pudichery, Punjab, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal
17 July	Wednesday	U Tirot Geet Divas	Meghalaya
31 July	Wednesday	Bonalu	Telangana
31 July	Wednesday	Martyrdom Day of Shaheed Udham Singh	Haryana
7 August	Wednesday	Hariyali Teej	Haryana
8 August	Thursday	Tendong Lho Rum Faith	Sikkim
13 August	Tuesday	Patriots Day	Manipur
15 August	Thursday	Independence Day	National Holiday
15 August	Thursday	Parsi New Year (Shahanshahi)	Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Gujarat, and Maharashtra
16 August	Friday	Legal Transfer Day	Puducherry
19 August	Monday	Raksha Bandhan	Chattisgarh, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh
19 August	Monday	Jhulam Yatra	Odisha
26 August	Monday	Janmashtami	All States Leaving Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshyadip, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Pudichury, and West Bengal
5 September	Thursday	Teej	Chhattisgarh and Sikkim
5 September	Thursday	Death of Sankardev	Assam
7 September	Saturday	Ganesh Chaturthi	Andhra Pradesh, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Pudichury, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu
8 September	Sunday	Ganesh Chaturthi Holidays Nuakhai	Goa
8 September	Sunday	Nuakhai	Odisha
13 September	Friday	Ramdev Jayanti	Rajasthan
13 September	Friday	Teja Dashami	Rajasthan
14 September	Saturday	First Onam	Kerala
15 September	Sunday	Thiruvonam	Kerala
16 September	Monday	Milad-Un-Nabi	All States Excluding Andaman Nicobar, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Punjab, Sikkim. And West Bengal
17 September	Tuesday	Indra Jatra	Sikkim
18 September	Wednesday	Shree Narayan Guru Jayanti	Kerala
20 September	Friday	Friday after Milad-Un-Nabi	Jammu Kashmir
21 September	Saturday	Sree Narayana Guru Samadhi Day	Kerala
23 September	Monday	Martyr’s Day of Heroes	Haryana
2 October	Wednesday	Mahalaya Amavasya	Karnataka, Odisha, Tripura, and West Bengal
2 October	Wednesday	Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti	National Holiday
3 October	Thursday	First Day of Bathukamma	Telangana
3 October	Thursday	Navratri	Rajasthan
3 October	Thursday	Maharaja Agrasen Jayanti	Haryana
10 October	Thursday	Maha Saptami	Meghalaya, Odisha, Sikkim, Tripura, and West Bengal
11 October	Friday	Mahashtami	Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Manipur, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Telangana, Tripura, and West Bengal
12 October	Saturday	Mahanavmi	Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Pudichery, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal
13 October	Sunday	Vijay Dashamai	All States Excluding Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Manipur, and Pudichury
13 October	Sunday	Shankardev Birthday	Assam
17 October	Thursday	Lakshmi Puja	Odisha, Tripura, and West Bengal
17 October	Thursday	Maharishi Valmiki Jayanti	Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, and Punjab
17 October	Thursday	Kati Bihu	Assam
31 October	Thursday	Diwali/Deepawali	Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Pudichury, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu
31 October	Thursday	Vallabh Bhai Patel Jayanti	Gujarat
1 November	Friday	Diwali	All States Except Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Pudichury, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana
1 November	Friday	Haryana Day	Haryana
1 November	Friday	Kannada Rajyotsava	Karnataka
1 November	Friday	Koot	Manipur
1 November	Friday	Puducherry Liberation Day	Puducherry
2 November	Saturday	Diwali/Deepawali Holidays	Daman and Diu, Haryana, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh
2 November	Saturday	Vikram Samat New Year	Gujarat
3 November	Sunday	Bhai Duj	Gujarat, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh
7 November	Thursday	Chhath Puja	Assam, Bihar, Chattisgarh, and Jharkhand
15 November	Friday	Guru Nanak Jayanti	All States Leaving Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Odisha, Pudichery, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, and Tripura
15 November	Friday	Kartik Purnima	Odisha and Telangana
18 November	Monday	Kanakdas Jayanti	Karnataka
22 November	Friday	Lhabab Duchen	Sikkim
23 November	Saturday	Seng Kut Snem	Meghalaya
1 December	Sunday	Swadeshi Day	Arunachal Pradesh
3 December	Tuesday	St. Francis Xavier Communion	Goa
5 December	Thursday	Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Birthday	Jammu Kashmir
6 December	Friday	Guru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom Day	Punjab
12 December	Thursday	Pa-Togan Nengminja Sangma	Meghalaya
18 December	Wednesday	You So So Them’s Death Anniversary?	Meghalaya
18 December	Wednesday	Guru Ghasidas Jayanti	Chattisgarh
19 December	Thursday	Liberation Day	Daman and Diu and Goa
24 December	Tuesday	Christmas Holidays	Meghalaya and Mizoram
25 December	Wednesday	Christmas	National Holiday
26 December	Thursday	Christmas Holidays	Meghalaya and Telangana
26 December	Thursday	Shaheed Udham Singh Jayanti	Haryana
30 December	Monday	Tamu Losar	Sikkim
30 December	Monday	U Kiang Nongba	Meghalaya
31 December	Tuesday	New Year Eve	Manipur and Mizoram

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Bank Holidays 2024 – How Are The Holidays Selected?

In India, the Central Government, State Governments, and all the Union Territories released their respective list of Bank Holidays in 2024. It is to be noted that every holiday is not celebrated in each state of the country. The holiday list is prepared to keep in mind the requirements of holidays in the state. Some of the bank holidays coincide with public holidays, that is, the day when there is a holiday in the whole country. But, there are also holidays that are applied to a few states. The authorities shortlist the Bank Holidays 2024 in different states or regions based on the religious beliefs associated with the day, its importance, and more.

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India is known as the land of diversity and people living here follow different religions and cultures. In such a situation, every community has its own festivals and religious programs. With all these details in mind, the bank holidays 2024 list is prepared and the holidays for bank employees are decided on it.

Bank Holidays 2024 - The Relevant Features

It is clear that holidays listed in the Bank Holidays 2024 list are not celebrated in every state. Separate holiday lists are issued for different states. Although there are many Bank Holidays 2024 celebrated across the country. Like the second and fourth Saturdays of every month, the leave routine is followed by all banks in India. The question arising here is that there are a few months with five Saturdays in place of four. What is done in such a situation? The fifth Saturday of the month is considered the off day or leave a day in place of the fourth one.

It is not necessary that the Bank Holidays 2024 list matches the public holiday list of 2024. It means that the bank functions even on some public and government holidays. It is also important to know about the Bank Holidays 2024 so that the employees can make good use of their leaves in planning for the outdoors with the family. It is vital to know the leave dates to complete tasks early so that the work doesn't get stuck due to bank holidays.

Bank Holidays 2024: How are Monetary Transactions Done On The Day?

Often it happens that we know about the bank holiday but couldn't complete the task before it. Suppose the situation arises that we need to do some vital monetary transactions on a bank holiday or some work arises that requires bank transactions but it is a bank holiday, then what can be done in such a situation? Below are the details to deal with such a situation:
Digital payment or transaction is the most reliable and suitable option of today’s time. It means the use of technology. Devices like phones, tablets, computers, and more can be used to complete the transactions. No need for it to visit the bank and the work can be completed sitting at home.
The second option is also through the use of technology and it is done through UPI, ATM machines, online transactions, phone banking, net banking, or mobile banking. Using the easy ways, one can do the transactions sitting at their home. The work is done much faster this way as compared to monetary transactions from the bank.
Other than that, if you want details related to your bank account like bank balance, account number, depositing money, or extracting money from the bank, then also technology is used to collect account-related details in a quick time.
In Bank Holidays 2024, options like NEFT, IMPS, RTGS, and others can be selected to do the transactions.
Other than that, if you’ve missed on payment of bills and now you remember at the last moment that you need to pay the bill, use technology to pay the bills timely. It will ensure faster and more secure monetary transactions.

This list of Bank Holidays 2024 helps the bank employees to plan their holidays in advance but also assists the general public in completing banking activities on time.

The special AstroSage article of Bank Holidays 2024 will assist to plan the bank-related tasks in advance with the detailed list of holidays in the year. The thing to note is that these dates are subjected to change and new holidays may be added if required. Stay tuned with us for the right updates on the Bank Holidays 2024 list.

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