Banks holidays this week due to Mahavir Jayanti

Banks holidays on Mahavir Jayanti

According to the list of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), banks will be holiday on 10 April due to Mahavir Jayanti. However, this holiday will not be in all cities. According to the RBI list, banks will be holiday in cities like Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chennai, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Raipur and Ranchi on 10 April.

Banks will be open in these cities

Banks will be open in some cities, including Agartala, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Imphal, Itanagar, Jammu, Kochi, Kohima, Panaji, Patna, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram.

Weekend holidays and bank functioning

According to RBI, banks have different weekend holidays. Banks are discharged on the second and fourth Saturdays of every month. If there are five Saturdays in a month, then it is also a working day. Due to the second Saturday on April 12 this month, banks will remain holiday, and during this time payment systems such as RTGS, NEFT, and check clearing will also be affected.

Special event of Mahavir Jayanti

On the day of Mahavir Jayanti, people of Jain community participate in worship, prayer, fasting and charity in temples. On this day, a procession is taken out by placing the idol of Mahavira on a chariot, which is called Rath Yatra. Religious verses are sung during the Rath Yatra and the idol of Mahavir is anointed. In addition, Jain temples give sages and nuns discourse, in which virtue and morality are mentioned.

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