New Year's Day to Christmas, Check Out the Full List of Bank Holidays 2021

Business Standard New Year's Day to Christmas, check out the full list of bank holidays 2021

Except in Chennai, Aizawl, Gangtok, Imphal, and Shillong, the banks will remain open across all other major cities of India on 1 January 2021.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has updated its calendar for the year 2021 and declared 16 bank holidays in all for the month of January.

Except in Chennai, Aizawl, Gangtok, Imphal, and Shillong, the banks will remain open in all other major cities of India on January 1, 2021.

Among the 16 holidays, four Sundays along with the second and fourth Saturdays are included. Banks would also remain closed on Republic Day, the only national holiday for the month of January.

On January 2, Aizawl banks to get another holiday for New Year celebrations.

Similarly, on January 12, Kolkata banks to remain closed over Swami Vivekananda's birthday.

To celebrate Makar Sankranti on January 14, banks in Ahmedabad, Gangtok, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad will remain shut.

From January 15-17, banks in Chennai will remain closed on account of various holidays. In Hyderabad, banks will remain closed on anuary 15 for Thiruvalluvar Day, Magh Bihu, and Tusu Puja celebrations.

To celebrate the birthday of Guru Govind Singh on January 20, banks in Chandigarh will remain closed.

On January 25, Imphal will observe a bank holiday to celebrate the Manipuri religious festival of Imoinu Iratpa. Gaan-Ngai, a festival of the Zeliangrong people of Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland, falls on the same day as Republic Day, i.e January 26 and thus, banks will remain closed.