There Are 15 Bank Holidays This Month. Check Out Full List Here

Banks are to stay closed for 15 days in August 2021

Banks, public in addition to personal ones, will stay closed for 15 days throughout this month, i.e. August 2021, out which seven days embrace second and fourth Saturdays and Sundays.

The remaining eight days embrace regional holidays. This 12 months, August 15 or Independence Day is falling on a Sunday, which is a weekly off for banks, based on the checklist of holidays launched by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Muharram and Janamashtami, which fall on August 19 and August 30 respectively, are being noticed as holidays in many of the cities throughout the nation.

Some different main regional holidays other than the 2 talked about above this month are Onam and Parsi New Year.

The RBI releases its month-to-month checklist of holidays underneath three classes, particularly Holidays underneath Negotiable Instruments Act, Holidays underneath Negotiable Instruments Act and Real Time Gross Settlement Holiday and Banks Closing of Accounts.

Check out the complete checklist of financial institution holidays in August 2021, right here:

August 1: Weekly off (Sunday)

August 8: Weekly off (Sunday)

August 13: Patriot's Day (Manipur)

August 14: Second Saturday

August 15: Weekly off (Sunday), Independence Day

August 16: Parsi New Year (Maharashtra)

August 19: Muharram (Tripura, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, West Bengal and different states)

August 20: Onam (Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu)

August 21: Thiruvonam (Kerala)

August 22: Weekly off (Sunday)

August 23: Sree Narayana Guru Jayanthi (Kerala)

August 28: Fourth Saturday

August 29: Weekly off (Sunday)

August 30: Janamashtami: (Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and different states)

August 31: Sri Krishna Ashtami (Telangana and Andhra Pradesh)

All banks stay shut on public holidays. Only gazetted holidays are recognised by banks throughout the nation.