Banks to remain shut for 21 days in October; Here’s the full list of holidays

GUWAHATI: The month of October is just around the corner and with that comes the festive season. With several festivals coming up, banks in India will remain closed for 21 days including Second and Fourth Saturdays as well as Sundays.

October is a major holiday month with festivals all over the country like Dussehra, Durga Puja and Eid-e-Miladunnabi. There are quite a few regional holidays when banks in some particular states will remain closed, during the month.

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Here is the full list of bank holidays in October:

October 1 - Half Yearly Closing of Bank Accounts (Sikkim)

October 2 - Gandhi Jayanti (Pan India)

October 3 – Sunday (Weekly off)

October 6 - Mahalaya Amavasye (West Bengal, Tripura, Karnataka)

October 7 - Mera Chaoren Houba of Lainingthou Sanamahi (Tripura, West Bengal, Meghalaya)

October 9 - Second Saturday

October 10 – Sunday (Weekly off)

October 12 - Durga Puja or Maha Saptami (West Bengal, Tripura)

October 13 - Durga Puja or Maha Ashtami (West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Manipur, Tripura, Assam)

October 14 - Durga Puja, Dussehra or Maha Navami, Ayutha Pooja (West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Puducherry, Odisha, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Kerala, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Bihar and Assam)

October 15 - Durga Puja, Dasara, Dusshera or Vijaya Dashmi (Pan India except for Manipur and Himachal Pradesh)

October 16 - Durga Puja or Dasain (Sikkim)

October 17 – Sunday (Weekly off)

October 18 - Kati Bihu (Assam)

October 19 - Eid-e-Milad, Eid-e-Miladunnabi, Milad-i-Sharif or Prophet Mohammad's Birthday (Pan India except for Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Jammu, Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand)

October 20 - Maharishi Valmiki's Birthday, Lakshmi Puja, Id-e-Milad (Tripura, Punjab, West Bengal, Karnataka, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh)

October 22 - Friday following Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi (Jammu and Kashmir)

October 23 - Fourth Saturday

October 24 – Sunday (Weekly off)

October 26 - Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir)

Comments October 31 – Sunday (Weekly off)

The Reserve Bank of India divides bank holidays into three categories—those under the Negotiable Instruments Act, the Negotiable Instruments Act and Real-Time Gross Settlement Holiday and Banks’ Closing of Accounts.

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