Bank Holiday : Starting today, Saturday 24 August, banks in some states of the country will remain closed for three days. The reason for this is the festival of Krishna Janmashtami, which will be celebrated on Monday, 26 August.
In such a situation, it is important for bank customers to complete the banking work according to the holiday in their state. However, today on Saturday, banks will remain closed in all the states of the country. Today is the fourth Saturday of the month of August.
Bank holiday will be on Saturday 24 August
Banks will remain closed in all states on Saturday, August 24 as it is the fourth Saturday of the month. As per the rules of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), banks remain closed on the second and fourth Saturdays of every month. Apart from this, banks are also closed on Sundays.
Bank holiday on 25 August:
Banks will remain closed in all states on August 25 as it is Sunday.
Will banks be closed on 26 August?
Banks will be closed in some states on the occasion of Krishna Janmashtami (Shravan Vad-8) Krishna Jayanti on Monday, August 26. In states where there is a holiday on Monday, banks will remain closed for three consecutive days.
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Banks will remain open in these states on Janmashtami
Banks will remain open on Monday in Tripura, Mizoram, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Nagaland, New Delhi, and Goa, so there will be no long weekend here.
Banks will remain closed on Janmashtami in these states
There will be a three-day long holiday for banks in Gujarat, Odisha, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthan, Jammu, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh and Srinagar.
Complete list of bank holidays: RBI
August 24: Fourth Saturday
25 August: Sunday holiday
August 26: Banks will remain closed in all cities on the occasion of Janmashtami.
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