West Bengal Holidays in 2024 – List of Bank and Govt Holidays in West Bengal

West Bengal Holidays in 2024 will be published in official website of the west bengal govt. The holidays in west bengal schedule in west bengal of private companies differs from that of the Government. Sunday is a statutory holiday for Government officials, while the majority of private companies remain closed on the Saturdays and Sundays of each month. In addition to these statutory holidays, all employees in both the private and public sectors are entitled to public holidays as well as national holidays.

West Bengal Holidays in 2024

List of West bengal govt holidays and bank holidays are as follows :

Holiday List for West Bengal Government Employees, 2024

Government of West Bengal
Finance (Audit) Department
“NABANNA”
325, Sarat Chatterjee Road
Howrah – 711 102

No. 6112-F(P2) Howrah, the 9th November, 2023

NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the power conferred by the explanation to Section 25 of the Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881 (XXVI of 1881), read with Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, Notification No. 20/25/56-pub(l) dated the 8th June, 1957, the Governor is pleased to declare the days as specified at List I below to be Public Holidays during the year 2024.

2. The Governor is also pleased to notify that the offices under the Government of West Bengal with the exception of the offices of the Registrar of Assurances, Kolkata and Collector of the Stamp Revenue, Kolkata shall be closed on the days as specified at List II below which are not declared to be public holidays, during the year 2024.

3. Further, the Governor is pleased to declare that the days as specified at List III may be observed as Sectional Holidays in the year 2024 for the employees of different communities mentioned against the day.

List-I (Public Holidays in 2024 under the N. I. Act)

List-II (Holidays under the order of State Government in 2024)

(#) Birth Day of Thakur Panchanan Barma falls on 14th February, Wednesday, which is a holiday under N. I. Act and therefore has not been shown separately in List-ll.

(##) Birth Day of Pandit Raghunath Murmu falls on 23rd May, Thursday, which is a holiday under N. I. Act and therefore has not been shown separately in List-ll.

(###) Birth Day of Birsa Munda falls on 15th November, Friday which is a holiday under N.l. Act and therefore has not been shown separately in List-ll.

(####) Parshwanath’s Rathajatra falls on 15th November, Friday which is a holiday under N. I. Act and therefore has not been shown separately in List-ll.

(#####) This year Doljatra and Holi fall on same day so ‘Holi’ is not shown separately in List II.

List-III (Sectional Holidays in 2024)

($$) Hul Diwas, Sectional Holiday [for Adivasi (Santhal) only] on 30th June falls on Sunday which is a holiday under N.l. Act & therefore not shown separately in List III.

Note:

1. Sundays are holidays under the Negotiable Instrument Act.
2. In the year 2024, the following festivals/occasions fall on Sundays which are public Holidays under N. I. Act and hence have not been included in lists:

3. The holiday with double asterisk marks i.e. (**) is applicable to those Government Offices only where Saturdays are not observed as full holiday.
4. General instructions as laid down hereunder are to be followed in case of Muslim festivals.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO BE FOLLOWED IN ALL TYPES OF HOLIDAYS INCLUDING HOLIDAYS FOR THE MUSLIM FESTIVALS

1) No substitute holiday shall be allowed if any of the festival – holidays initially notified subsequently happens to fall on a weekly off or any other non-working day or in the event of more than one festival falling on the same day.

2) If there is any change in the date of Eid-Ul-Fitr, Id-Ud-Zoha, Muharram, Fateha-Dwaz-Daham, Shab-e-Barat depending upon the sighting of the moon, holiday will be declared by a separate order for the date on which the festival would be actually observed in lieu of the date originally notified as holiday for this festival.

3) It may happen that the change of date of above mentioned occasions has to be notified at a very short notice. In such a situation, announcement would be made through T.V. / A.I.R. / News Papers and Heads of Department / Offices of the State Government may take action according to such announcements without waiting for formal order about the change of date.

By order of the Governor,

Sd/- Dr. Manoj Pant
Additional Chief Secretary
to the Government of West Bengal

No. 6112-F dated 09.11.2023, Source

National Holidays in West Bengal in Year 2024

Republic Day, Independence Day and Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti. This three are the National holiday which is celebrated in January, August and October respectively every year. Independence Day is on 15th August honors the freedom from the British while Republic Day is on 26th January for creation of the constitution of India. The birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti is on 02 October.

List of Bank Holidays in West Bengal 2024

The list of Bank holidays in West Bengal 2024 are as follows :

• Bank Holiday of Andhra Pradesh in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Arunachal Pradesh in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Assam in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Bihar in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Chandigarh in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Chhattisgarh in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Dadra & Nagar Haveli in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Daman & Diu in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Delhi in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Goa in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Gujarat in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Haryana in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Himachal Pradesh in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Jammu & Kashmir in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Jharkhand in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Karnataka in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Kerala in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Lakshadweep in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Madhya Pradesh in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Maharashtra in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Manipur in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Meghalaya in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Mizoram in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Nagaland in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Odisha in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Puducherry in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Punjab in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Rajasthan in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Sikkim in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Tamil Nadu in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Telangana in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Tripura in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Uttar Pradesh in 2024
• Bank Holiday of Uttarakhand in 2024
• Bank Holiday of West bengal in 2024