August 2024 Financial institution Holidays: In August, banks throughout India, each private and non-private, shall be closed for as much as 13 days, together with Sundays, nationwide and regional holidays, and the second and fourth Saturdays of the month.
Varied festivals shall be celebrated in numerous states throughout August, resulting in financial institution closures. These embody Ker Puja, Tendong Lho Rum Faat, Patriot’s Day, Independence Day/Parsi New Yr (Shahenshahi), Raksha Bandhan, Janmashtami.The precise dates and states affected by these closures range.
Varied festivals shall be celebrated in numerous states throughout August, resulting in financial institution closures. These embody Ker Puja, Tendong Lho Rum Faat, Patriot’s Day, Independence Day/Parsi New Yr (Shahenshahi), Raksha Bandhan, Janmashtami.The precise dates and states affected by these closures range.
August 2024: Full Listing of Financial institution Holidays
- August 3 (Saturday) – Ker Puja: Banks closed in Agartala.
- August 8 (Thursday) – Tendong Lho Rum Faat: Banks closed in Sikkim.
- August 13 (Tuesday) – Patriot’s Day: Banks closed in Manipur.
- August 15 (Thursday) – Independence Day/Parsi New Yr (Shahenshahi): All banks in India closed.
- August 19 (Monday) – Raksha Bandhan/Jhulana Purnima/Birthday of Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur: Banks closed in Tripura, Gujarat, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh.
- August 20 (Tuesday) – Sree Narayana Guru Jayanthi: Banks closed in Kerala.
- August 26 (Monday) – Janmashtami (Shravan Vad-8)/Krishna Jayanthi: Banks closed in Gujarat, Odisha, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthan, Jammu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, and Srinagar.
This yr, August 15, which is Independence Day, falls on a Thursday, so there is not going to be an prolonged weekend throughout that week.
Nonetheless, in sure states, there shall be an extended weekend as a result of closure of banks on Monday, August 26, for Janmashtami (Shravan Vad-8)/Krishna Jayanthi, which follows the fourth Saturday and Sunday of the month.
In keeping with an ET report, the states affected by this lengthy weekend embody Gujarat, Orissa, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthan, Jammu, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, and Srinagar.
