Bank Holiday List 2023:Except for national and weekly holidays in the new year, banks remain closed on different days due to various festivals and local holidays in different states.
This time many Gazetted holidays are falling on Sundays. In such a situation, if you are a bank customer, then you must know about the holidays of the year 2023.
Some of the national holidays during the year 2023 are Republic Day on 26 January and Independence Day on 15 August and 2 October (Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti).Banks in most of the states will remain closed these days. Banks will remain closed on festivals like Diwali, Ganesh Chaturthi, Christmas, Eid, Guru Nanak Jayanti, Good Friday. Although festivals like Diwali and Ganesh Chaturthi are celebrated in many states, the date varies from state to state.
Let us tell you that the holidays have been classified into three groups by the central government. The first covered by the Act, the second real-time gross settlement holidays and the third bank account closure holidays. The second and fourth Saturdays of every month are holidays in India, so banks are closed. If there are five Saturdays in a month, the bank will open on the fifth Saturday of that month.
January 01 Sunday New Year’s Day
12 January Thursday Swami Vivekananda Jayanti (West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh)
15 January Sunday Pongal
16 January Monday Thiruvalluvar Day / Mattu Pongal
Banks will remain closed in West Bengal on account of Netaji’s birthday on January 23.
26 January Thursday Republic Day
March 8 Doljatra (West Bengal)
Apr 07 Friday Good Friday
14 April Friday Tamil New Year
14 April Friday Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Jayanti
22 April Saturday Ramadan
01 May Monday May Day
05 May Friday Mercury Purnima
09 May Tuesday Rabindranath Jayanti (West Bengal)
29 June Thursday Bakrid (Id-ul-Azha)
15 August Tuesday Independence Day
August 16 Wednesday Legal Transfer Day
19 September Tuesday Vinayaga Chaturthi
28 September Thursday Milad-un-Nabi (Birthday of Prophet Muhammad)
02 October Monday Gandhi Jayanti
24 October Tuesday Vijayadashami
12 November Sunday Diwali
December 25 Monday Christmas
