Banks will remain closed in many cities of the country on the occasion of Mahashivaratri.
Mahashivaratri 2023: Bank holidays in India directly affect the general public. In fact, banks are so closely related to our lives that our work cannot go on without including them in our day-to-day activities. Banks across the country remain closed during public holidays, while some states also observe special holidays when banks do not operate. Shivratri festival is on 18th February, in such a situation it becomes necessary to know whether the banks in your city will be open or closed on this day.
Mahashivaratri holidays are state-centric
Let us tell you that on government holidays like Republic Day, Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti, banks remain closed across the country, while on festivals like Mahashivratri, bank holidays are state-specific. That is, on Mahashivratri, banks will remain closed not in the whole country but in some states. Please tell that the festival of Mahashivratri is specially celebrated in states like Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Where banks will remain closed on Mahashivratri, where not
We told you in which states of the country the festival of Mahashivaratri is celebrated with more pomp. In such a situation, it is obvious that on the occasion of Mahashivaratri in the cities of these states bank closed Will remain Banks in Thiruvananthapuram, Srinagar, Shimla, Ranchi, Raipur, Nagpur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Kochi, Varanasi, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Jammu, Hyderabad, Dehradun, Bhubaneshwar, Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore and Bengaluru among other places due to Mahashivratri on February 18 Will be closed At the same time, banks will not remain closed in Tripura, Mizoram, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, Rajasthan, Bengal, Delhi, Goa, Bihar and Meghalaya.
When is the festival of Mahashivaratri celebrated?
mahashivratri It is a major festival of Hindus and it is the main festival of Lord Shiva. Mahashivratri festival is celebrated on Magh Phagun Krishna Paksha Chaturdashi which usually falls in February or March. It is believed that the creation started from this day. Lord Shiva was married to Goddess Parvati on this day. Lord Shiva and his wife Parvati are worshiped on the day of Mahashivaratri. In Kashmir Shaivism, this festival is also called Har-Ratri and colloquially ‘Herath’ or ‘Herath’.