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Bank Holidays August 2022: Employees to Get 11 Days Off in the Upcoming 13 Days! Check Dates

The list shows that there will be a total of 9 days from 7 to 19 August 2022 when the banks are closed. With weekend leaves added in, there are a total of 12 days of bank holidays.

Binita Kumari
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has divided the holidays into three categories: Real-Time Gross Settlement Holiday, Holiday Under Negotiable Instruments Act, and Banks' Closing of Accounts
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has divided the holidays into three categories: Real-Time Gross Settlement Holiday, Holiday Under Negotiable Instruments Act, and Banks' Closing of Accounts

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reports that there will be a total of 11 bank holidays in the next 13 days, starting from 8th august to 19th august. The list includes weekend holidays too. 

However, given many of the bank holidays are local, this may vary from state to state and bank to bank. But on August 13, which also happens to be the second Saturday of the month and a regional holiday for Imphal, banks will remain closed.

Holidays in August 2022

Here’s the list of leaves in August as per the Negotiable Instruments Act:

August 8: Muharram (Ashoora) — Jammu, Srinagar

August 9: Muharram (Ashoora) — Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Patna, Raipur and Ranchi

August 11: Raksha Bandhan — Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Dehradun, Jaipur, and Shimla

August 12: Raksha Bandhan — Kanpur, and Lucknow

August 13: Patriot’s Day — Imphal

August 15: Independence Day — All over India

August 16: Parsi New Year (Shahenshahi) — Belapur, Mumbai, and Nagpur

August 18: Janmashtami — Bhubaneswar, Dehradun, Kanpur, and Lucknow

August 19: Janmashtami (Shravan Vad-8)/ Krishna Jayanthi — Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Gangtok, Jaipur, Jammu, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong and Shimla

List of weekend leaves:

August 7: First Sunday

August 13: Second Saturday + Patriot’s Day

August 14: Second Sunday

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has divided the holidays into three categories: Real-Time Gross Settlement Holiday, Holiday Under Negotiable Instruments Act, and Banks' Closing of Accounts.

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