Banks to remain shut today for Independence Day; here's the full list of upcoming holidays

Independence Day bank holiday: Branches of all commercial banks — public as well as private — will remain shut on Tuesday, August 15 on the occasion of the country's 77th Independence Day. Besides, banks are scheduled to remain closed for a total of 14 days, including Sundays and the second and fourth Saturdays, in August.

Independence Day bank holiday: Branches of all commercial banks — public as well as private — will remain shut on Tuesday, August 15. Image: Unsplash/ Representational image

Independence Day bank holiday: Branches of all commercial banks — public as well as private — will remain shut on Tuesday, August 15 on the occasion of the country's 77th Independence Day. Besides, banks are scheduled to remain closed for a total of 14 days, including Sundays and the second and fourth Saturdays, in August. Types of bank holidays The RBI classifies bank holidays into three categories: Holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act, Holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act and Real-Time Gross Settlement Holidays, and Banks’ Closing of Accounts.

Here's a full list of bank holidays in August 2023, as listed by the RBI:

Holiday Description	Day (August)
Tendong Lho Rum Faat	8
Independence Day	15
Parsi New Year (Shahenshahi)	16
Tithi of Srimanta Sankardeva	18
First Onam	28
Thiruvonam	29
Raksha Bandhan	30
Raksha Bandhan/Sree Narayana Guru Jayanthi/Pang-Lhabsol	31

One has to note that these holidays will not be uniformly applied across the country, and will vary from region to region. In addition, one must visit a bank branch for any important bank-related work, keeping in mind the number of days when branches will be closed in several cities of the country in August 2023.

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August 2023	8	15	16	18	28	29	30	31
Agartala		Bank holiday
Ahmedabad		Bank holiday
Aizawl		Bank holiday
Belapur		Bank holiday	Bank holiday
Bengaluru		Bank holiday
Bhopal		Bank holiday
Bhubaneswar		Bank holiday
Chandigarh		Bank holiday
Chennai		Bank holiday
Dehradun		Bank holiday						Bank holiday
Gangtok	Bank holiday	Bank holiday						Bank holiday
Guwahati		Bank holiday		Bank holiday
Hyderabad - Andhra Pradesh		Bank holiday
Hyderabad - Telangana		Bank holiday
Imphal		Bank holiday
Jaipur		Bank holiday					Bank holiday
Jammu		Bank holiday
Kanpur		Bank holiday						Bank holiday
Kochi		Bank holiday			Bank holiday	Bank holiday		Bank holiday
Kohima		Bank holiday
Kolkata		Bank holiday
Lucknow		Bank holiday						Bank holiday
Mumbai		Bank holiday	Bank holiday
Nagpur		Bank holiday	Bank holiday
New Delhi		Bank holiday
Panaji		Bank holiday
Patna		Bank holiday
Raipur		Bank holiday
Ranchi		Bank holiday
Shillong		Bank holiday
Shimla		Bank holiday					Bank holiday
Srinagar		Bank holiday
Thiruvananthapuram		Bank holiday			Bank holiday	Bank holiday		Bank holiday
Source: rbi.org.in

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