New Delhi: The Scheduled Commercial Banks including SBI, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and PNB are closed for three days in some parts of the country including suburbs of New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Good part is that the three-day holiday is not in continuation.
Banks are closed on account of national holidays such as Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi on Wednesday, 21 November, which marks Prophet Muhammad’s birthday and Guru Nanak Jayanti on Friday, 23 November. Banks will be open on Thursday, 22 November. However, Saturday, 24 November will be a nationwide bank holiday as it is the fourth Saturday of November month.
According to a TOI report, in New Delhi, Mumbai (along with rest of Maharashtra), Hyderabad, Raipur, Ranchi, Dehradun, Jammu, Srinagar, Kanpur and Lucknow, banks are closed for three days -- 21 November (Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi), 23 November (Guru Nanak Jayanti), 24 November (fourth Saturday).
In state capitals including Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Bengaluru (Karnataka), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) Chennai (Tamil Nadu), banks are closed for two days, i.e, today, 21 November (Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi) and Saturday, 24 November (fourth Saturday), TOI reported. While in other capital cities such a Chandigarh, Guwahati, Jaipur, Kolkata, Shillong, Shimla, banks are closed on 23 November (Guru Nanak Jayanti) and 24 November (fourth Saturday), the report added.
In the state of Kerala, Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi holiday was marked on 20 November and the next holiday will be on 24 November (fourth Saturday). Whereas in cities such as Agartala, Aizawl, Bhubaneswar, Gangtok, Imphal, Goa, Patna (including rest of Bihar), banks will be closed on 24 November only, on account of fourth Saturday, TOI report said further.
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