The month of October is fun with holidays and festivals, and many banks around the country will be closed.
According to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) calendar, all public and private banks will be closed for 21 days in October, including the second and fourth Saturdays and Sundays. The month of October is fun with holidays and festivals, and many banks around the country will be closed.
In October, there are 21 bank holidays in total, although they are divided into state-specific festivals. Only 14 of the 21 holidays are bank leaves provided by the RBI.
The remaining seven days are weekend leaves, which include Sundays as well as the second and fourth Saturdays of each month.
The following is a complete list of bank holidays in October 2021:
- 1) October 1 – Half Yearly Closing of Bank Accounts (Gangtok)
- 2) October 2 – Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti (All States)
- 3) October 3 – Sunday
- 4) October 6 – Mahalaya Amavasye (Agartala, Bengaluru, Kolkata)
- 5) October 7 – Mera Chaoren Houba of Lainingthou Sanamahi (Imphal)
- 6) October 9 – 2nd Saturday
- 7) October 10 – Sunday
- 8) October 12 – Durga Puja (Maha Saptami) / (Agartala, Kolkata)
- 9) October 13 – Durga Puja (Maha Ashtami) / (Agartala, Bhubaneswar, Gangtok, Guwahati, Imphal, Kolkata, Patna, Ranchi)
- 10) October 14 – Durga Puja/ Dussehra (Maha Navami)/ Ayutha Pooja (Agartala, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gangtok, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Shillong, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram)
- 11) October 15 – Durga Puja/ Dasara/ Dusshera (Vijaya Dashmi) / (All Banks except those in Imphal and Shimla)
- 12) October 16 – Durga Puja (Dasain) / (Gangtok)
- 13) October 17 – Sunday
- 14) October 18 – Kati Bihu (Guwahati)
- 15) October 19 – Id-E-Milad/ Eid-e-Miladunnabi/ Milad-i-Sherif (Prophet Mohammad’s Birthday)/ Baravafat / (Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bhopal, Chennai, Dehradun, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jammu, Kanpur, Kochi, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Raipur, Ranchi, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram)
- 16) October 20 – Maharishi Valmiki’s Birthday/ Lakshmi Puja/ Id-E-Milad (Agartala, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Kolkata, Shimla)
- 17) October 22 – Friday following Eid-i-Milad-ul-Nabi (Jammu, Srinagar)
- 18) October 23 – 4th Saturday
- 19) October 24 – Sunday
- 20) October 26 – Accession Day (Jammu, Srinagar)
- 21) October 31 – Sunday
Also check: Central Government Holiday list in October 2021
