Ganesh Chaturthi 2023: Banks will remain closed for two days- September 18 and 19.
Banks will remain closed for two days — September 18 and 19 — in some parts of the country for Ganesh Chaturthi.
This year, the 10-day-long Ganesh Utsav will be observed from September 19 to September 28.
Ahead of the festival, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced that the banks will remain shut in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai on Monday, September 18.
The statement released, on RBI’s official website, also added that in Mumbai, Nagpur and Ahmedabad among other major cities the banks will be closed on September 19.
RBI also said that the bank will remain shut in the national capital, Delhi, on September 28, which is the last day of Ganesh Chaturthi.
Here is the complete list of cities wherein the bank will remain shut on September 18:
Bengaluru
Chennai
Hyderabad-Telangana
On September 19, banks will remain shut in these cities:
Ahmedabad
Belapur
Bhubaneswar
Mumbai
Nagpur
Panaji
Here is the list of cities where banks will remain shut on the day of Visarjan—September 28
Ahmedabad
Aizawl
Belapur
Bengaluru
Chennai
Dehradun
Hyderabad-Telangana
Imphal
Kanpur
Lucknow
Mumbai
Nagpur
New Delhi
Raipur
Ranchi
It must be noted that these cities will witness bank holidays under the Negotiable Instruments Act, RBI added.