Banks To Remain Closed For 21 Days In October, Here Is The Full Holiday List

Private and public banks will remain close for 21 days in the month of October as a number of national holidays and religious festivals fall in this month.

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27 Sep 2021, 3:57 am

New Delhi: All private and public banks will be closed for 21 days in the month of October as several national holidays and religious festivals of India fall in this month.

The celebration of religious festivals like Dussehra, Durga Puja and Eid-e-Miladunnabi take up most of the days of the month. In addition to Sundays, Gandhi Jayanti will also be observed on the 2nd of October. However, the holidays may vary across many states of the country.

Here is the full list of holidays for the month of October:

Date	Occasion/Event/Festival	States
1st	Half-yearly closing of bank accounts	Sikkim
2nd	Gandhi Jayanti	Pan India
3rd	Sunday	-
6th	Mahalya Amavasye	West Bengal, Tripura, Karnataka
7th	Mera Chaoren Haouba of Lainingthau Sanamahi	Tripura, West Bengal, Meghalaya
9th	Second Saturday	-
10th	Sunday	-
12th	Durga Puja or Maha Saptami	West Bengal, Tripura
13th	Durga Puja or Maha Ashtami	West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Manipur, Tripura, Assam
14th	Durga Puja, Dussehra or Maha Navami, Ayutha Pooja	West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Puducherry, Odisha, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Kerela, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Bihar and Assam
15th	Durga Puja, Dasara, Dusshera or Vijaya Dashmi	Pan India except for Manipur and Himachal Pradesh
16th	Durga Puja or Dasain	Sikkim
17th	Sunday	-
18th	Kati Bihu	Assam
19th	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, Anshra Pradesh, Telangana, Jammu, Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Kerela, Delhi, Chattisgarh and Jharkhand
20th	Maharishi Valmiki's Birthday, Lakshmi Puja, Id-e-Milad	Tripura, Punjab, West Bengal, Karnataka, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh
22nd	Friday following Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabii	Jammu and Kashmir
23rd	Fourth Saturday	-
24th	Sunday	-
26th	Accession Day	Jammu and Kashmir
31st	Sunday	-