Are Banks, Schools Closed On 17th August? Check Holidays List Over Here

Banks are usually closed on 2nd & 4th Saturdays & all Sundays or any other state holidays as per the RBI guidelines.

Banks are usually closed on national and state regional holidays, as well as on second and fourth Saturdays and all Sundays or on specific designated days as per the holiday list provided by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). As 17th August is the 3rd Saturday of the month of August, the bank will remain operational on this date. So there is no holiday for Banks on 17th August.

Check Bank Holidays list for the month of August 2024 & for the whole year of 2024 below in this article.

Schools Closed On 17 August In Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad

In view of the Kanwar Yatra, District Magistrate Anuj Singh has given instructions to keep schools up to class VIII closed in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad on Saturday, August 17. Only schools and colleges located on Kanth Road, Delhi Road, Rampur Road within a radius of five kilometers within the city limits will remain closed.

Schools up to class 8 of all the boards including Basic Education Council, Secondary Education Council, UP Board, ICSE, CBSE will remain closed. 

Apart from this, schools will also remain closed on Sunday 18th and Raksha Bandhan on 19th.

August Bank Holidays 2024

August 19- (Monday)- Raksha Bandhan/Jhulana Purnima/Birthday of Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur- Banks are closed in Tripura, Gujarat, Orissa, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh.

August 20- (Tuesday)- Sree Narayana Guru Jayanthi -Banks are closed in Kerala.

August 26- (Monday)- Janmashtami (Shravan Vad-8)/Krishna Jayanthi- Banks are closed in Gujarat, Orissa, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthan, Jammu, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh state, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh and Srinagar.

Remaining Bank Holidays List For 2024 (Its differ for state to state & Below list is not applicable to all the states)