October Bank Holiday: Banks will remain closed for 16 days in October, and leave home only after seeing the list of holidays.

The month of September is just about to end. The month of October will start from tomorrow. Banks are going to be closed for 16 days out of 31 days in October. These 16 days also include Saturday and Sunday holidays. Apart from this, bank branches will remain closed in different states at different festivals. Let us know on which days bank branches will remain closed in your city in October.

If we look at the list of bank holidays of RBI, the month of October itself begins with holidays. Due to October 1 being a Sunday, banks across the country will remain closed. Apart from this, banks will also remain closed on 8, 15, 22, and 29 October due to Sunday. Apart from this, October 14 and 28 are the second and fourth Saturdays, due to which bank branches across the country will remain closed. There will be a holiday in banks on October 2 on Gandhi Jayanti. Apart from this, banks remain closed in October on Mahalaya, Kati Bihu, Durga Puja, Dussehra, Lakshmi Puja, and the birth anniversary of Sarkar Vallabhbhai Patel. Let us see the complete list of bank holidays other than Saturday and Sunday in October-

List of bank holidays for October
2 October: (Monday) – Gandhi Jayanti – National holiday
October 14: (Saturday)- Bank closed in Mahalaya- Kolkata.
October 18: (Wednesday) - Kati Bihu - Bank closed in Assam.
October 21: (Saturday) – Durga Puja (Maha Saptami) – Bank closed in Tripura, Assam, Manipur and Bengal.
October 23: (Monday) - Dussehra (Mahanavami) / Ayudha Puja / Durga Puja / Vijay Dashami - Bank closed in Tripura, Karnataka, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Kanpur, Kerala, Jarakakhand, Bihar.
October 24: (Tuesday) – Dussehra/Dussehra (Vijayadashami)/Durga Puja – Banks closed in all states except Andhra Pradesh, Manipur.
October 25: (Wednesday) - Durga Puja (Dassain) - Bank closed in Sikkim.
October 26: (Thursday) – Durga Puja (Dassain)/Merger Day – Banks in Sikkim, Jammu and Kashmir
27 October: (Friday) Durga Puja (Dassain) – Bank closed in Sikkim.
October 28: (Saturday) – Lakshmi Puja – Bank closed in Bengal
31 October: (Tuesday) - Birthday of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel - Bank closed in Gujarat.

Online services of banks will continue to work
However, even during bank holidays in October, online services of banks will continue to work as usual. In such a situation, you can use it to complete your work.

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