As per an ET report, banks will be closed for a total of 14 days across different states in the month of April, including Sundays and the second and fourth Saturdays, as per the RBI holiday list.
The RBI classifies holidays into three categories: Negotiable Instruments Act Holidays, Real Time Gross Settlement Holidays, and Bank Account Closing Holidays.
April 1, 2024, is designated as a Bank Account Closing Holiday, allowing banks to finalise their yearly accounts. However, it’s important to note that while most places will observe this closure, Mizoram, Chandigarh, Sikkim, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, and Meghalaya will remain unaffected.
Bank holidays in April 2024
Here are the holidays for which banks will remain closed in April 2024:
- Bank Account Closing for yearly accounts
- Babu Jagjivan Ram’s Birthday/Jumat-ul-Vida
- Gudhi Padwa/Ugadi Festival/Telugu New Year’s Day/Sajibu Nongmapanba (Cheiraoba)/1st Navratra
- Ramzan-Id (Eid-Ul-Fitr)
- Bohag Bihu/Cheiraoba/Baisakhi/Biju Festival
- Bohag Bihu/Himachal Day
- Shree Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain)
- Garia Puja
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April 2024 bank holiday list
Apr-24 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 20 |
Agartala | • | • | • | • | |||||
Ahmedabad | • | • | • | ||||||
Aizawl | • | ||||||||
Belapur | • | • | • | • | |||||
Bengaluru | • | • | • | ||||||
Bhopal | • | • | • | ||||||
Bhubaneswar | • | • | • | ||||||
Chandigarh | • | ||||||||
Chennai | • | • | • | ||||||
Dehradun | • | • | • | ||||||
Gangtok | • | ||||||||
Guwahati | • | • | • | • | |||||
Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh | • | • | • | • | |||||
Hyderabad – Telangana | • | • | • | • | • | ||||
Imphal | • | • | • | • | |||||
Itanagar | • | • | |||||||
Jaipur | • | • | • | ||||||
Jammu | • | • | • | • | • | ||||
Kanpur | • | • | • | ||||||
Kochi | • | • | |||||||
Kohima | • | • | |||||||
Kolkata | • | ||||||||
Lucknow | • | • | • | ||||||
Mumbai | • | • | • | • | |||||
Nagpur | • | • | • | • | |||||
New Delhi | • | • | |||||||
Panaji | • | • | • | ||||||
Patna | • | • | • | ||||||
Raipur | • | • | |||||||
Ranchi | • | • | • | ||||||
Shillong | • | ||||||||
Shimla | • | • | |||||||
Srinagar | • | • | • | • | • | ||||
Thiruvananthapuram | • | • |
Holiday Description | Day |
To enable to Banks to close their yearly accounts | 1 |
Babu Jagjivan Ram’s Birthday/Jumat-ul-Vida | 5 |
Gudhi Padwa/Ugadi Festival/Telugu New Year’s Day/Sajibu Nongmapanba (Cheiraoba)/1st Navratra | 9 |
Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) | 10 |
Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (1st Shawaal) | 11 |
Bohag Bihu/Cheiraoba/Baisakhi/Biju Festival | 13 |
Bohag Bihu/Himachal Day | 15 |
Shree Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain) | 17 |
Garia Puja | 20 |
Rs 2,000 note exchange and deposit
Additionally, the Reserve Bank of India has announced that the exchange and deposit of Rs 2,000 notes will not be available on April 1, 2024. This temporary suspension is due to the annual closing of accounts. The facility will resume on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, as per RBI’s notification issued on March 28, 2024.
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