In October, public and private banks will be closed for 21 days, including weekends and festivals. While all banks are closed on public holidays, regional holidays are limited to specific states and are determined by the various state governments, according to RBI statement.
While bank branches will be closed on certain days, mobile and internet banking will continue to operate normally.
Full list of bank holidays in October 2021:
October 1 - Half Yearly Closing of Bank Accounts (Sikkim)
October 2 - Gandhi Jayanti (Pan India)
October 3 - Sunday
October 6 - Mahalaya Amavasye (West Bengal, Tripura, Karnataka)
October 7 - Mera Chaoren Houba of Lainingthou Sanamahi (Tripura, West Bengal, Meghalaya)
October 9 - 2nd Saturday
October 10 - Sunday
October 12 - Durga Puja (Maha Saptami) / (West Bengal, Tripura)
October 13 - Durga Puja (Maha Ashtami) / (West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Manipur, Tripura, Assam )
October 14 - Durga Puja/Dussehra (Maha Navami)/Ayutha Pooja (West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Puducherry, Odisha, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Kerala, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Bihar, Assam)
October 15 - Durga Puja/Dasara/Dusshera (Vijaya Dashmi) / (National except for Manipur, Himachal Pradesh)
October 16 - Durga Puja (Dasain) / (Sikkim)
October 17 - Sunday
October 18 - Kati Bihu (Assam)
October 19 - Id-E-Milad/Eid-e-Miladunnabi/Milad-i-Sherif (Prophet Mohammad’s Birthday)/Baravafat (Nation except for Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Jammu, Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand )
October 20 - Maharishi Valmiki’s Birthday/Lakshmi Puja/Id-E-Milad (Tripura, Punjab, West Bengal, Karnataka, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh)
October 22 - Friday following Eid-i-Milad-ul-Nabi (Jammu and Kashmir )
October 23 - 4th Saturday
October 24 - Sunday
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