Starting from tomorrow, 3 October, the banks will remain closed for the entire week in some of the cities. The banks were not functioning on October 1 due to Half Yearly Closing of Bank Account and even today October 2 (Gandhi Jayanti) is a holiday.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has placed the holidays under three brackets- Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act; Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act and Real-Time Gross Settlement Holiday; 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.
