Bank Holidays: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released a list of days when the banking operations across the country will remain shut in the month of December. Usually, private and public sector banks across the country are closed on Sundays, as well as on the second and fourth Saturdays of every month, following the guidelines issued by the RBI.
Besides, holidays in banks depend on the festivals being observed in specific states or notification of specific occasions in those states, thus customers are advised to plan their bank-related chores accordingly. However, central government holidays such as New Year, Independence Day, Republic Day, Gandhi Jayanti, Christmas, Holi, Diwali, Eid etc are applicable to all banks.
List of Bank Holidays in December 2020:
December 1- State Inauguration Day- Nagaland, Indigenous Faith Day- Arunachal Pradesh
December 3- Kanakadasa Jayanti- Karnataka, World Disabled Day- Tripura, Feast of St. Francis Xavier- Goa
December 5- Birthday of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah- Jammu and Kashmir
December 12- Second Saturday
December 18- Death Anniversary of U SoSo Tham- Meghalaya, Guru Ghasidas Jayanti- Chandigarh
December 19- Goa Liberation Day- Goa, Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Ji’s Martyrdom Day- Punjab
December 25- Christmas Day- National holiday
December 26- Fourth Saturday
December 30- Tamu Losar- Sikkim, U Kiang Nangbah- Meghalaya
December 31- New Year’s Eve- Manipur
Mean-while, India’s coronavirus tally crossed the 94-lakh mark even as new case additions dropped below the 40,000-mark for the first time in six days.
India reported 38,772 new cases in 24 hours, taking the total tally to 94.31 lakh in the world’s second-worst infected country, according to the Health Ministry’s update as of 8 a.m. That includes 88.47 lakh recoveries and more than 1.37 lakh deaths.
Authorities reported 45,333 recoveries in a day, making it the third straight day that new cases trailed recoveries.
Total coronavirus cases across the globe exceeded the 6.25 crore mark, while deaths neared the 15-lakh-mark on Monday morning.
New York City public schools will begin reopening on Dec. 7 despite levels of Covid-19 that re-shuttered schools earlier this month. California cases rose to a record, based on a two-week average, after Los Angeles and San Francisco imposed tighter restrictions. Florida neared 1 million infections.
Vaccines are likely to begin rolling out in the U.S. before the end of December, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams and Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, said.
