Lucknow, November 04: The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday released the holiday list for the year 2020. State employees will get more holiday opportunities next year than this year.
In fact, in 2019, many festivals fell on Sunday, due to which the holidays of employees were reduced. The list released by the government today shows that most of the festivals in the year 2020 are falling on Friday or Monday. This will give more leave opportunities to the state employees next year.
The number of public holidays is 24 in the list of holidays issued by the government. The number of unrestricted holidays is 29.
This is a list of public holidays
1- Republic Day – 26 January
2- Mahashivratri – 21 February
3- Birthday of Holika Dahan and Mohammad Hazrat Ali – March 09
4- Holi – 10 March
5- Ram Navami – 02 April
6- Mahavir Jayanti – 06 April
7- Good Friday – 10 April
8- Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Birthday – April 14
9- Buddha Purnima – 07 May
10- Eid-ul-Fitr – 25th May
11- Edujuzha (Bakrid) – 01 August
12- Raksha Bandhan – 03 August
13- Janmashtami – 12 August
14- Independence Day – 15 August
15- Moharram – 30 August
16- Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti – 02 October
17- Dussehra (Mahanavami) – October 24
18 – Dussehra (Vijayadashami) – 25 October
19-Eid-e-Milad (Baravafat) – 30 October
20- Deepawali – 14 November
21- Govardhan Puja – 15 November
22- Bhaiya Dooj- 16 November
23- Guru Nanak Jayantidhakartik Purnima – 30 November
24- Christmas Day – 25 December
Restricted leave
1-New Year’s Day – 01 January
2- Makar Sankranti – 15 January
3- Jananayak Karpoori Thakur Jayanti – January 24
4- Basant Panchami – 30 January
5- Sant Ravidas Jayanti – 09 February
6- Holi – March 11
7- Chetichand – 25 March
8- Urs of Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti Ajmeri Garib Nawaz – 03 March
9 – Maharishi Kashyap and Maharaja Nishad Raj Guha Jayanti – 05 April
10- Shebe Barat – 09 April
11- Easter Saturday – April 11
12 – Easter Monday – 13th April
13 – Chandrasekhar Jayanti – 17 April
14-Parashuram Jayanti – 25 April
15 – Lok Nayak Maharana Pratap Jayanti – 09 May
16- Jamaat-ul Vida (Goodbye) Last Friday of Ramadan – May 22
17-Eid-ul-Fitr-26 May
18- Bakrid – 02 August
19- Moharram and Anant Chaturdashi – 31 August
20- Vishwakarma Puja – 17 September
21- Chellum – 08 October
22- Maharaja Agrasen Jayanti – 17 October
23- Dashahara (Mahashtami) – 24 October
24- Maharishi Balmiki Jayanti, Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel and Acharya Narendra Dev Jayanti – 31 October
25- Narak Chaturdashi – 13th November
26- Veerangana Udadevi Martyr’s Day – 16 November
27- Chhath Puja festival – 20 November
28- Chaudhary Charan Singh Jayanti – 23 December
29- Christmas Eve – 24 December.
Annual closing of accounts of banks is on 1st April. On this occasion, only banks, treasuries and sub-treasuries will have a holiday. Apart from this, on the order of the District Magistrate, on January 2, Guru Govind Singh Jayanti and on December 19, Guru Tegh Bahadur Shaheed Day will be a local holiday.
