Bank holidays in October 2020: Plenty of holidays coming next month, check your list and finish your work on time

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Even though economic activities are now nearing full opening across the country, the risk of corona infection does not seem to be decreasing from anywhere. Therefore, every person should keep trying to avoid the risk of infection. For this, we should try to handle the tasks from home and go out only when needed. Banks are also very important in the lives of common people. But many times it happens that we go to the bank branch to do our banking work and there it is known that the banks are off on that day. In order to avoid such inconveniences in times of crisis like the Corona epidemic, we must know when the banks are off.

Talk about the month of October, according to the Reserve Bank of India, there are 10 festivals in this month. Banks are going to have holidays in different parts of the country in these ten days. Apart from this, banks will have a public holiday on the second and fourth Saturday in addition to every Sunday in October. RBI made such an announcement in the year 2015. Let us know on which dates in October the banks will remain closed.

According to information available on the RBI website, due to the Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti being held on two dates in the month of October, banks will have holidays across the country. After this, on October 4, due to Sunday, banks will have a weekly holiday. After this, due to the second Saturday on October 10 and Sunday on October 11, banks will be closed across the country. Kati Bihu / Mera Chauran is Hoba of Lanningthau Sanamahi on 17 October. Banks in Assam and Imphal will remain closed on this day. After this, on October 18, due to Sunday, banks will be closed across the country.

Maha Saptami is on 23rd of October. Banks will have a holiday in Tripura, West Bengal and Meghalaya on this day. This is followed by Mahashtami on 24 October. Banks are closed on this day in Tripura, Assam, Telangana, Imphal, Jammu, Kochi, West Bengal, Bihar and Kerala, but due to the fourth Saturday, banks will remain closed across the country. After this, due to Sunday on October 25, banks will be closed across the country.

It is Vijayadashami on 26th of October. The bank will have holidays in Tripura, Karnataka, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Assam, Jammu, Kochi, West Bengal, Bihar, Kashmir and Kerala on this day. After this, banks will leave in Sikkim on 27th and 28th due to Durga Puja. After this, on October 29, banks will be off in Sikkim, Jammu, Kochi, Kashmir and Kerala due to Prophet Mohammad Jayanti and Durga Puja.

Eid-e-Milad will be celebrated on the 30th of October. Banks will have a holiday on this day in Tripura, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Telangana, Imphal, Jammu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Kashmir. This is followed by Sardar Vallabh Bhai Jayanti on 31 October. Banks will have holidays on this day in Gujarat, Karnataka, Orissa and Shimla.