Banks are going to remain closed for many days in the next two weeks. In such a situation, your banking related work may get stuck. Here is the complete list of bank holidays. You can easily check when are the bank holidays.
Bank Holiday in April 2023: Due to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti, banks will be closed all over India today. According to the RBI website, apart from Ambedkar Jayanti, banks will remain closed today in some states on account of festivals like Baisakhi, Baisakhi, Tamil New Year’s Day, Cheoroba, Biju Festival and Bohag Bihu.
Banks will remain closed in these cities
Banks will remain closed in many cities today . Banks will remain closed today in Agartala, Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Gangtok, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji, Patna. Today will also be a holiday in Ranchi, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram. Talking about the Northeast, banks will open only in Shillong today.
According to RBI guidelines, banks remain closed on Sundays as well as on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month. Let us tell you that under the Negotiable Instruments Act of 1881, the central government divided the holidays into three categories.
Banks will remain closed on these dates in April 2023
April 15: Vishu / Bohag Bihu / Himachal Day / Bengali New Year Day
April 17: Sunday
April 18: Shab-l-Qadr
April 21: Eid-ul-Fitr (Ramadan Eid) / Gariya Puja / Jumat-ul-Vida
April 22: Ramadan Eid
April 23: Fourth Saturday
April 24: Sunday
Today is holiday in NSE BSE too
The stock markets are closed today on account of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti . This is the third holiday in the last two weeks for Indian equity indices. The benchmark indices were closed on Mahavir Jayanti on April 4 and Good Friday on April 7.
Ambedkar Jayanti 2023
Ambedkar Jayanti or Bhim Jayanti is celebrated on 14 April. Ambedkar is known as the ‘Father of the Indian Constitution’. Famous social reformer Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar was born on 14 April 1891. He died on 6 December 1956.
