In January 2024, both public and private sector banks will remain closed for 16 days in line with the Reserve Bank of India\u2019s calendar. The aforesaid holidays will not be uniformly applied across the country and may vary from region to region as the same holidays will be observed nationwide as public holidays while others will be treated as local holidays.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Central Bank (RBI) categorises bank holidays into three categories namely holidays under the Negotiable Instruments Act, the Negotiable Instruments Act and Real time gross settlement holidays and banks closing of accounts. Internet banking services and ATMs will remain operational throughout the country on all days.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As per the RBI guidelines state that both public sector banks and private sector banks do not work on Sundays and on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month. Additionally, the banks also remain closed on public holidays, including regional holidays which are decided by the state governments.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bank holidays in January 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n January 1 (Monday): New Year\u2019s day<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 7: Sunday<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 11 (Thursday): Missionary Day (Mizoram)<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 12 (Friday): Swami Vivekananda Jayanti (West Bengal)<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 13: Second Saturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 14: Sunday<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 15 (Monday): Pongal\/Thiruvalluvar Day (Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 16 (Tuesday): Tusu Puja (West Bengal and Assam)<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 17 (Wednesday): Guru Govind Singh Jayanti<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 21: Sunday<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 23 (Tuesday): Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 25 (Thursday): State Day (Himachal Pradesh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 26 (Friday) : Republic Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 27: Fourth Saturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 28: Sunday<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 31(Wednesday) : Me-Dam-Me-Phi (Assam)<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an entire year, the major bank holidays include Republic Day (January 26), Independence Day (August 15), Gandhi Jayanti (October 2), and Christmas (December 25). Besides this, banks also remain closed on regional festivals like Diwali, Dussehra, Eid, Ganesh Chaturthi, Buddha Purnima and others. Note that the official website to check about bank holidays is www.rbi.org.in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Internet banking services and ATMs will remain operational throughout the country on all days.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":497185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[2988],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/12\/26173710\/images-88-1.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497183"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=497183"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=497183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}