Banks will remain closed for up to three days due to Holi festival. If you have some bank-related work and are planning to visit your nearest branch, should first check the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) bank holiday list. The central banks categorise holidays as national and regional. Those in the first category lead to bank holidays across India, while regional holidays lead to the closing of branches in some states.
Here’s a list of bank holidays in states on account of Holi celebrations:
March 07– Holi/Holi (Second Day)/Holika Dahan/Dhulandi/Dol Jatra (Belapur, Dehradun, Guwahati, Hyderabad – Telangana, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji, Ranchi and Srinagar regions)
March 8: Bank holidays in some cities including Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Dehradun and Gangtok.
March 09– Holi (Patna)
Other holidays in March:
March 11– Second Saturday
March 12– Banks will remain closed on Sunday
March 19– Banks will remain closed on Sunday
March 22: Bank holidays in some cities including Belapur, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Imphal, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji and Patna.
March 25– Fourth Saturday
March 26– Banks will remain closed on Sunday
March 30: Bank holidays in some cities including Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Patna, Lucknow, Mumbai and Nagpur.
The banks remain shut on Sundays as well as the second and fourth Saturdays of every month.