Banks Will Remain Closed For 6 Days Next Week. Check Here
Banks will remain closed in Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Shimla, Kolkata and Agartala because of Valmiki Jayanti and other occasions in different parts of the country on other days.
New Delhi: With the onset of festive season banks remained closed across the country and in the coming week starting Monday, October 18 banks will not function for six days, according to the guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
In the first half of the month, banks remained closed for 11 days. On Saturday, October 16, banks were closed in Sikkim’s Gangtok on the occasion of Durga Puja while banks are across the country on October 17 as it is a Sunday.
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Banks will be closed for 21 bank holidays in October.
Check bank holidays during the week starting October 18:
October 18: Banks will be closed in northeaster state Guwahati on occasion of Kati Bihu
October 19: On the occasion of Id-E-Milad, which marks the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad, banks will be closed in New Delhi, Bhopal, Ahmedabad, Belapur, Chennai, Dehradun, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jammu, Kanpur, Kochi, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Raipur, Ranchi, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram.
October 20: Banks will remain closed in Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Shimla, Kolkata and Agartala for observing Valmiki Jayanti.
October 22: Banks will be closed in Jammu and Srinagar due to Eid-i-Milad-ul-Nabi
October 23: Banks will be closed across India because of the fourth Saturday.
October 24: Banks will remain shut due to Sunday.
The RBI puts holidays under three categories: holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act, holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act and Real-Time Gross Settlement Holiday and Banks’ Closing of Accounts. In September, banks across the country were closed for a total of 12 days.
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