Bank holiday: October is a festival-filled month. Banks will be closed for a total of 21 days in October because to Durga Puja, Dussehra, Diwali, Chhath Pooja, and numerous other significant holidays happening in this month. The second and fourth Saturdays of each month, as well as Sundays, are regular holidays that fall under this category.
In several of the cities, the banks will be closed all week starting tomorrow, October 3.
Due to the half-yearly closing of bank accounts, the banks were closed on October 1. Gandhi Jayanti is still a holiday on October 2.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has divided the holidays into three categories: Real-Time Gross Settlement Holiday, Holiday Under Negotiable Instruments Act, and Banks’ Closing of Accounts.
Bank Holiday on October 3: Durga Puja (Maha Ashtami)
Banks will be closed in Agartala, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Imphal, Kolkata, Patna, Ranchi.
Bank Holiday on October 4: Durga Puja/Dusshera (Maha Navami)/Ayudha pooja/ Janmotsav of Srimanta Sankardeva
Banks will be closed in Agartala, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Gangtok, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Shillong and Thiruvananthapuram.
Bank Holiday on October 5: Durga Puja/Dussehra (Vijaya Dashmi)/Janmotsav of Srimanta Sankardeva
Banks will be closed across India, except in Imphal.
Bank Holiday on October 6: Durga Puja (Dasain)
Banks will be closed in Gangtok.
Bank Holiday on October 7
Banks will be closed in Gangtok.
Bank Holiday on October 8: Second Saturday and Milad-i-Sherif/Eid-i-Milad-ul-Nabi (Birthday of Prophet Muhammed)
Banks will remain closed in Bhopal, Jammu, Kochi, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram.
