All schools, colleges and offices will remain closed for 17 days due to public holidays in 2025.

List of Public Gazetted Holidays 2025: The government has released the leave list of central employees for 2025. This list includes two types of holidays – gazetted (mandatory) and restricted (optional). Gazetted holidays refer to those 17 holidays which are considered mandatory in all government offices. These holidays include major national days and religious festivals. The government has also given a list of 34 restricted holidays, which employees can choose as per their choice. Gazetted holidays are compulsorily applicable in every government office, whereas restricted holidays depend on the discretion of the employee. This list is recognized in all government offices, so that employees can know about the holidays in advance and plan their work.

List of holidays for government employees in the year 2025

The government has released the list of holidays for central employees. The Central Government has released the list of Public Holidays (Gazetted Holidays) and Restricted Holidays (Restricted Holidays 2025) for the year 2025. According to this list, there are a total of 17 gazetted and 34 restricted holidays. Gazetted holidays are mandatory holidays in the government calendar. Restricted leave is an option. Employees can choose these as per their wish. The holiday calendar issued by the government is applicable in all government offices.

Gazetted Holidays 2025

List of 17 Major Gazetted Holidays Mandatory for Central Government Offices

1. Republic Day
2. Independence Day
3. Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti
4. Buddha Purnima
5. Christmas
6. Dussehra (Vijayadashami)
7. Diwali
8. good friday
9. Guru Nanak Jayanti
10. Eid-ul-Fitr
11. Eid-ul-Zuha (Bakrid)
12. Mahavir Jayanti
13. muharram
14. Eid-e-Milad (Birthday of Prophet Mohammad)

List of optional holidays

Apart from this, every employee gets 12 optional leaves, out of which he is allowed to take 3 leaves. This is a list of optional holidays.

1. One extra day for Dussehra
2. Holi
3. Janmashtami (Vaishnav)
4. Ram Navami
5. Mahashivratri
6. Ganesh Chaturthi
7. makar sankranti
8. Rath Yatra
9. Onam
10. Pongal
11. Shree Panchami/Vasant Panchami

Vishu/Vaisakhi/Bhag Bihu/Ugadi/Chaitra Shukladi/Cheti Chand/Gudi Padwa/First Navratri/Karva Chauth etc.

Employees can choose these optional holidays as per their personal religious, cultural or family festivals. Thus, this list gives the opportunity to the Central Government employees to take leave on their festivals and special occasions.