Bank Holidays in October: Now the festival has started. Dussehra is near and people have started preparing for Diwali. The work of cleaning and painting the houses has started. Whenever the festive season comes, many holidays also start. Due to this festival many holidays have come in the month of October. If you have any important work related to the bank, then do it quickly. Also, if you are going to the bank someday in October, be sure to check the list of holidays. Because banks will be closed for a total of 21 days this month. (bank holiday in October)
The month of October starts with a bank holiday of 9 days and there will be no work in the banks for a total of 21 days in the whole month. If we look at RBI’s holiday calendar for the month of October, there will be no work in banks in this month including Durga Puja, Dussehra, Diwali, Eid. Bank holidays vary between states and cities.
Online banking services will continue
Bank holidays depend on the festivals celebrated in the states or other events taking place in those states. Although the branches of the bank remain closed during the festive season, but during this time you can do banking related work online. This facility will continue as usual. However, also note that banks are open on the first and third Saturdays of the month.
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Complete List of Bank Holidays in October
1 October – Bank half yearly closed (nationwide holiday)
October 2 – Sunday and Gandhi Jayanti holiday
October 3 – Maha Ashtami (Durga Puja) (Banks closed in Agartala Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Imphal, Kolkata, Patna, Ranchi)
October 4 – Mahanavami / Srimanta Sankaradeva Jayanti (Holidays in Agartala, Bengaluru, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Kolkata, Chennai, Gangtok, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Shillong, Thiruvananthapuram areas)
October 5 – Durga Puja/Dussehra (Vijay Dashami) holiday across the country
6 October – Durga Puja (Holiday in Gangtok)
October 7 – Durga Puja (Gangtok Bank will remain closed)
8 October – Second Saturday Milad-e-Sharif/Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi (Holiday)
October 9 – Sunday
13 October – Karva Chauth (Bank Holiday in Shimla)
14 October – Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi (Jammu, Srinagar)
October 16 – Sunday
18 October – Kati Bihu (Guwahati)
October 22 – Fourth Saturday
23 October – Sunday
October 24 – Narak Chaturdashi
25 October – Lakshmi Puja
26 October – Govardhan Puja
27 October – Bhaubij / Chitragupta Jayanti / Laxmi Puja / Diwali / Ningol Chakkuba holiday at Gangtok, Imphal, Kanpur, Lucknow)
30 October – Sunday
31 October – Chhath Puja (holiday in Ahmedabad, Ranchi and Patna)