Christmas 2021: Banks to remain shut for 6 days starting 24th Dec, check details here
Christmas 2021: Banks to remain shut for 6 days starting 24th Dec, check details here
After a number of regular holidays in October and November because of the festive season, public and private sector banks in India will also stay shut for as many as six days across different states for the remainder of December 2021.
The list of days off involves one common holiday across all states on 25th December, which also falls on the last Saturday this month and is by default a holiday across all banks. Banks will also ramain closed for the weekend on 26th December.
Besides the two usual holidays, banks in number of states will also remain shut on December 24, 27, 30 and 31 in consequence to regional festivals. Aizawl and Shillong will see a maximum of four days of holidays among major cities, as per the Reserve Bank of India’s holiday calendar.
On December 3 and 18, banks remained shut in Panaji and Shillong due to the Feast of St Francis Xavier and the death anniversary of U SoSo Tham.
Nevertheless, the holidays that takes place on the other days in December are not the same across states and would only be observed in few states.
List of remaining bank holidays for this month:
25th December: Official bank holidays on the occasion of Christmas across the country. Bank shutters would be down in Agartala, Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram.
26th December: A weekend holiday on Sunday for all banks across India.
27th December: Christmas celebrations would continue in Aizawl and banks would remain shut on the day.
30th December: Bank holiday for the regional holiday of U Kiang Nangbah in Shillong.
31st December: Aizawl will have another day of a bank holiday on account of New Year’s Eve.
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