New Delhi: Before visiting your bank branch today (1 March 2022), you must take a note on whether the bank branch in your city is operating or not.


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As per the RBI holiday list, bank branches in several cities will be closed today on account of Mahashivratri 2022. However, banking activities like ATM transaction, online transaction, IMPS, RTGS etc will continue to be operative.


Banks in the following mentioned cities with the red dots will remain closed on account of Mahashivratri 2022. The red dots fall under RBI's Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act.


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Agartala  
Ahmedabad
Aizawl  
Belapur
Bengaluru
Bhopal
Bhubaneswar
Chandigarh
Chennai  
Dehradun
Gangtok  
Guwahati  
Hyderabad
Imphal  
Jaipur
Jammu
Kanpur
Kochi
Kolkata  
Lucknow
Mumbai
Nagpur
New Delhi  
Panaji  
Patna  
Raipur
Ranchi
Shillong  
Shimla
Srinagar
Thiruvananthapuram

Banks will remain closed for total 13 days in the month of March —7 as per the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) holiday calendar list and the remaining days are that of weekends.


However, you must note that the banks will NOT be closed for 13 days in all states or regions. This is the total number of days when banks in different parts of the country will remain closed for state-observed holidays. For example bank branches might be closed for Bihar Divas in Bihar but NOT closed for the same festival in Assam.


Here is an elaborate list of bank holidays falling in the month of March 2022. Check out the list.
Holiday Description Day


Mahashivratri (Maha Vad-14): March 1


Losar: March 3


Chapchar Kut: March 4


Holika Dahan: March 17


Holi/Holi 2nd Day – Dhuleti/Doljatra: March 18


Holi/Yaosang 2nd Day: March 19


Bihar Divas: March 22


Other than the above RBI mentioned holidays, banks will be closed on the following weekends


Sunday: March 6


Second Saturday: March 12


Sunday: March 13


Sunday: March 20


Fourth Saturday: March 26


Sunday: March 27


Reserve Bank of India places its Holidays under three brackets --Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act; Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act and Real Time Gross Settlement Holiday; and Banks’ Closing of Accounts. However, it must be noted that the bank holidays vary in various states as well not observed by all the banking companies. Banking holidays also depend on the festivals being observed in specific states or notification of specific occasions in those states.


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