Mumbai: Banks both public well as private will be closed for 21 days in October. October is a major holiday month with pan India level festivals like Dussehra, Durga Puja and Eid-e-Miladunnabi and therefore the banks will remain closed.
The holidays will also include weekend holidays, second and fourth Saturday. These holidays will differ state wise. The official list of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has 14 days in total holidays.
RBI releases its monthly list of holidays under three categories, namely Holidays under Negotiable Instruments Act, Holidays under Negotiable Instruments Act and Real Time Gross Settlement Holiday and Banks Closing of Accounts.
The whole list of holidays
Check out the full list of bank holidays in October 2021, here:
October 1 – Half Yearly Closing of Bank Accounts (Sikkim)
October 2 – Gandhi Jayanti (Pan India)
October 3 – Sunday (Weekly off)
October 6 – Mahalaya Amavasye (West Bengal, Tripura, Karnataka)
October 7 – Mera Chaoren Houba of Lainingthou Sanamahi (Tripura, West Bengal, Meghalaya)
October 9 – Second Saturday
October 10 – Sunday (Weekly off)
October 12 – Durga Puja or Maha Saptami (West Bengal, Tripura)
October 13 – Durga Puja or Maha Ashtami (West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Manipur, Tripura, Assam)
October 14 – Durga Puja, Dussehra or Maha Navami, Ayutha Pooja (West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Puducherry, Odisha, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Kerala, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Bihar and Assam)
October 15 – Durga Puja, Dasara, Dusshera or Vijaya Dashmi (Pan India except for Manipur and Himachal Pradesh)
October 16 – Durga Puja or Dasain (Sikkim)
October 17 – Sunday (Weekly off)
October 18 – Kati Bihu (Assam)
October 19 – 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, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Jammu, Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand)
October 20 – Maharishi Valmiki’s Birthday, Lakshmi Puja, Id-e-Milad (Tripura, Punjab, West Bengal, Karnataka, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh)
October 22 – Friday following Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi (Jammu and Kashmir)
October 23 – Fourth Saturday
October 24 – Sunday (Weekly off)
October 26 – Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir)
October 31 – Sunday (Weekly off)
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