The festival of Ganesh Chaturthi starts from today. The festival of Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated with great pomp in many parts of the country. It has great importance from Maharashtra to Gujarat. In this situation, banks remain closed in many places and are not functioning. Banks will remain closed in many places even today. If you have any bank pending for today, before visiting the bank, please check once that the bank is not closed in your city.
Public holidays are issued by the Reserve Bank every month. According to the RBI, there will be no holiday across India on Ganesh Chaturthi, but banks will remain closed at many places. As per the RBI’s public holiday calendar, banks will remain closed in Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji, Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bengaluru, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) on Ganesh Chaturthi. At the same time, banks will function normally in the rest of the states of the country.
When will banks be closed in September?
There are many holidays in the month of September. This time the banks will remain closed in many parts of the country not for 10 or 12 days but for 15 days.
- September 1st: Sunday
- September 4: Tirubhav Tithi by Srimanta Sankardeva (Guwahati)
- September 7: Ganesh Chaturthi
- September 8th: Sunday
- September 14: Second Saturday, First Onam (Kochi, Ranchi and Thiruvananthapuram)
- September 15: Sunday
- September 16: Barawafat
- September 17: Milad-un-Nabi (Gangtok and Raipur)
- September 18: Pang-Lahabsol (Gangtok)
- September 20: Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi (Jammu and Srinagar)
- September 22: Sunday
- September 21: Sree Narayana Guru Samadhi Day (Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram)
- September 23: Birthday of Maharaja Hari Singh (Jammu and Srinagar)
- September 28th: ​​Fourth Saturday
- September 29: Sunday
Holidays vary
The list of bank holidays is not the same in all states. According to the Reserve Bank of India, the list of bank holidays for all states is different. A complete list of these holidays is provided on the official website of the RBI, where complete details of different festivals and holidays are given state-wise. Despite the closure of banks, customers will not face any problem. Even on bank holidays, people can complete all their work with the help of online banking. Nowadays, most of the bank services are available online. So, even on bank holidays, you can perform many banking tasks from home.