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Bank Holidays 2024: There is good news for bank employees working in Madhya Pradesh. Bank employees of MP will also get leave on 19 August and 26 August this year. Actually, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has approved two new holidays for bank employees in the state. Officers working in the banking sector and working under the “Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881” will get these holidays.
Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav has approved leave for bank employees in the state on August 19 and August 26. After this, under the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, bank employees will also get leave on the occasion of Rakshabandhan on August 19 and Shri Krishna Janmashtami on August 26.
Bank employees have been demanding leave for a long time
It is worth noting that this demand was being raised for a long time. On the occasion of Rakshabandhan and Shri Krishna Janmashtami, bank officers and employees had also demanded leave to celebrate the festival like other employees, on which the Madhya Pradesh government has now taken a decision. Under this, the Chief Minister has announced that bank employees will also get holidays on the festival of Rakshabandhan and Janmashtami like other employees and officers.
Important news for common people too
Banks will remain closed on 19 August and 26 August in Madhya Pradesh, because on the demand of bank employees, Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav has announced a holiday for bank employees on both these dates. In such a situation, the common people of Madhya Pradesh will have to take care to avoid going to the bank on these two days, because due to the holiday of bank employees on these two days, no bank related work will be done.
According to the information given on the official website of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), there will be a total of 13 bank holidays (Bank Holidays 2024) in the month of August. These include weekly holidays on Sunday and holidays on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month. During this time, there will be no work in both public and private sector banks (August 2024 bank holidays).
Here are the weekly holidays for banks in August 2024:
- Banks will remain closed across the country on August 4 as it is Sunday.
- Banks will remain closed across the country on August 10 as it is the second Saturday of the month.
- Banks will remain closed across the country on August 11 as it is Sunday.
- Banks will remain closed across the country on August 18 as it is Sunday.
- Banks will remain closed across the country on August 25 as it is Sunday.
- August 31, 2024: Banks will remain closed across the country as it is the fourth Saturday of the month.
Banks will remain closed on these days too
Apart from this, banks will also remain closed on the occasion of Independence Day (Independence Day 2024) on 15 August, Raksha Bandhan (Raksha Bandhan 2024) on 19 August and Janmashtami (Janmashtami 2024) on 26 August. So let's know about it…
3 August 2024: Banks will remain closed in Agartala on the occasion of Ker Puja.
8 August 2024: Banks will be closed in Sikkim on the occasion of Tendong Lo Rum Fat.
August 13, 2024: Banks will remain closed in Manipur on the occasion of Deshbhakti Diwas.
August 15, 2024: All banks across the country will remain closed on the occasion of Independence Day.
August 19, 2024: Banks will be closed in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan.
20 August 2024: Banks will remain closed in Kerala on the occasion of Sree Narayana Guru Jayanti.
August 26, 2024: Banks will be closed in Gujarat, Odisha, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthan, Jammu, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh and in Srinagar on the occasion of Janmashtami or Krishna Janmashtami.
