New Delhi: According to the holiday list of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), bank branches will remain closed in many cities of the country today due to Good Friday. However, online banking activities will continue.
So, if you want to visit your bank branch for any important bank related work today, you must first check the list of RBI holidays and also see if any local festival is being celebrated in your state. Is.
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Banks will remain closed all over India except Agartala, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Jaipur, Jammu, Shimla and Srinagar due to Good Friday. It is also a long weekend week, as tomorrow (April 9) and the next day (April 10) banks will be closed for the second Saturday and Sunday.
While some bank holidays are celebrated across the country, some others will be local holidays for which bank branches remain closed in a month. Many bank branches will remain closed in various states due to these festivities. Before visiting your bank branch for the rest of April, note down the list of important days on which banks will remain closed.
Bank Holidays List in April 2023
According to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) holiday calendar list, banks will be closed for a total of 16 days in the month of April- 11 and the remaining days are weekends. However, you should note that banks will not be closed for 16 days in all states or territories. This is the total number of days when banks in different parts of the country will remain closed for the holidays observed by the state.
For example, bank branches in Hyderabad may be closed for Babu Jagjivan Ram’s birthday, but bank branches in Goa, Bihar or other states may not be closed.
Here is the detailed list of bank holidays falling in April 2023. See the list.
April 7: Good Friday (Banks will remain closed all over India except Agartala, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Jaipur, Jammu, Shimla and Srinagar).
April 8: Second Saturday
April 9: Sunday
April 14: Ambedkar Jayanti (Banks will remain closed all over India except Bhopal, New Delhi, Raipur, Shillong and Shimla)
April 15: Vishu, Bohag, Bihu, Himachal Day, Bengali New Year (Bank holiday in Agartala, Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata, Shimla and Trivandrum)
April 16: Sunday
April 18: Shab-e-Qadr (Bank branches will remain closed in Jammu and Kashmir)
April 21: Eid-ul-Fitr (Banks will remain closed in Tripura, Jammu and Kashmir and Kerala)
April 22: Fourth Saturday
April 23: Sunday
April 30: Sunday
The Reserve Bank of India has grouped its holidays under three brackets – Holidays under the Negotiable Instruments Act; holiday and real time gross settlement holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act; and closure of accounts by banks. However, it should be noted that bank holidays differ from state to state and are not observed by all banking companies. Banking holidays also depend on the festivals being celebrated in specific states or the notification of specific occasions in those states.
The holidays on the mentioned days in different regions will be observed as per the holidays declared by the state, however banks will remain closed all over the country for gazetted holidays.