Bank Holiday June 1: The seventh and final phase of elections is on Saturday. In such a situation, banks will remain closed today in those places where voting is going on today. See here when the banks will be closed in the month of June.
Bank Holiday Today due to Voting: Today is Saturday, 1st June, so many times people are confused whether banks will open on Saturday or not. So let us tell you that according to RBI guidelines, banks across the country are closed on the second and fourth Saturdays, and work is done on the remaining Saturdays. Today also, as it is the first Saturday, work will be done in banks. But in the places where voting is going on today, banks will remain closed today.
Let us tell you that the seventh and final phase of elections is on Saturday. Today, voting is being held on 57 seats of the Union Territory of Chandigarh and 7 states. Voting is being held on the Union Territory of Chandigarh, all 13 seats of Punjab, 4 seats of Himachal Pradesh, 13 seats of Uttar Pradesh, 9 seats of West Bengal, 8 seats of Bihar, 6 seats of Odisha and 3 seats of Jharkhand.
Banks are closed due to voting in these places
Uttar Pradesh: Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria, Bansgaon (reserved), Ghosi, Salempur, Ballia, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur and Robertsganj.
West Bengal: Dumdum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jaynagar, Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata South and Kolkata North.
Bihar: Nalanda (GEN), Patna Sahib (GEN), Patliputra (GEN), Ara (GEN), Buxar (GEN), Sasaram (SC), Karakat (GEN), Jehanabad (GEN).
Himachal Pradesh: Kangra (GEN), Mandi (GEN), Hamirpur (GEN), Shimla (SC).
Jharkhand: Rajmahal (ST), Dumka (ST), Godda (GEN).
Odisha: Mayurbhanj (ST), Balasore (GEN), Bhadrak (SC), Jajpur (SC), Kendrapara (GEN), Jagatsinghpur (SC).
Punjab: Gurdaspur (Gen), Amritsar (Gen), Khadoor Sahib (Gen), Jalandhar (SC), Hoshiarpur (SC), Anandpur Sahib (Gen), Ludhiana (Gen), Fatehgarh Sahib (SC), Faridkot (SC), Ferozepur (Gen), Bathinda (Gen), Sangrur (Gen), Patiala (Gen).
Holidays in June and when
15 June: Raja Sankranti holiday (Aizawl, Bhubaneshwar)
17 June: Bakrid (banks closed almost all over India)
18 June: Bakrid holiday (Jammu, Srinagar)
Apart from this, bank employees are also going to get holidays on 5 Sundays and 2 Saturdays as weekly holidays in the month of June. Let us tell you that due to the seventh phase of Lok Sabha elections in the country, banks are also going to be closed in 57 cities of 8 states on June 1.
Holidays are according to the states
Let us tell you that the list of holidays for banks is not the same in all the states. According to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the list of holidays for all the states is different. The complete list of these holidays is given on the official website of RBI, in which complete details of different festivals and holidays are given according to the states. Despite the banks being closed, customers will not face any problem. Even on holidays, people can finish all their work with the help of online banking. In today’s time, most of the bank services are available online. Therefore, even on holidays, you can complete many banking tasks sitting at home.
