Bank Holidays October 2021: Banks will be closed for 21 days in a month due to festivals, see the full list of holidays here

Bank Holidays in October 2021: Due to festivals in October 2021, there will be no work in banks for 20 days, in such a situation, all the work related to banks, should be dealt with as soon as possible.

Bank Holidays in October 2021: There are only a few days left for this month to end and in the next month October 2021, the work in banks will be closed for 20 days. Banks are going to be closed for several days in the festive season next month and in many places banks will open only on one day in a week. In such a situation, deal with banks on time only. It should be noted here that not all banks across the country will remain closed for 20 days as some of the holidays which are fixed by the central bank RBI are regional. This means that for some days only banks will remain closed in some states but in other states all banking work will continue as usual. In some places, banks will remain banks for five consecutive days next month. The holidays of October 2, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 26 of the next month as decided by the RBI are under the Negotiable Instruments Act.

According to the RBI guidelines, banks are closed on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month apart from Sundays. Below, information is being given about the bank holidays in the month of October, along with it is also being given in which state the banks will remain closed and where they will remain open on a particular day. Based on this, settle the work related to your bank so that there is no problem and there is no interruption in any work.

List of Bank Holidays in October 2021

1. October 1 – Half Yearly Closing of Bank Accounts (Gangtok)
2. October 2 – Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti – Banks closed in all states
3. October 3 – Sunday (weekly holiday)
4. October 6 – Mahalaya Amavasya – Banks closed in Agartala, Bangalore and Kolkata
5. October 7 – Mira Chorel Houba – Bank closed in Imphal
6. October 9 – Saturday (2nd Saturday of the month)
7. October 10 – Sunday (weekly holiday)
8. October 12 – Durga Puja (Maha Saptami) – Banks closed in Agartala, Kolkata
9. October 13 – Durga Puja (Maha Ashtami) – Banks closed in Agartala, Bhubaneswar, Gangtok, Guwahati, Imphal, Kolkata, Patna and Ranchi
10. October 14 – Durga Puja / Dussehra (Maha Navami) / Ayuth Puja – Banks closed in Agartala, Bangalore, Chennai, Gangtok, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Shillong and Thiruvananthapuram
11. October 15 – Durga Puja / Dasara / Vijayadashmi – Banks closed in Imphal and other places except Shimla
12. October 16 – Durga Puja (Dashain) – Bank closed in Gangtok
13. October 17 – Sunday (Weekly Holiday)
14. October 18 – Kati Bihu – Bank closed in Guwahati
15. October 19 – Eid-e-Milad / Eid-e-Miladunnabi / Milad-e-Sharif / Barawafat- Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bhopal, Chennai, Dehradun, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jammu, Kanpur, Kochi, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Banks closed in Delhi, Raipur, Ranchi, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram
16. October 20 – Birthday of Maharishi Valmiki / Lakshmi Puja / Eid-e-Milad – Banks closed in Agartala, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Kolkata and Shimla
17. October 22 – Friday after Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi – Banks closed in Jammu and Srinagar
18. October 23 – Saturday (fourth Saturday of the month)
19. October 24 – Sunday (Weekly Holiday)
20. October 26 – Accession Day – Banks closed in Jammu and Srinagar
21. October 31 – Sunday (Weekly Holiday)