Holiday List 2024: When will Diwali fall in 2024? On which date and day is the next sixty Chhath Puja falling? When and on which day is Holi falling in 2024? Let’s see the Central Government’s list of holidays for 2024.
Holiday List 2024: When will Diwali fall in the year 2024? On which date and day is the next sixty Chhath Puja falling? When and on which day is Holi falling in 2024? So let us not only know the dates and days of these festivals but here you also have the holiday list of 2024 for central employees.
As per the Office Memorandum dated July 3, 2023, the administrative offices of the Central Government will observe the holidays listed below during 2024. Apart from this, each staff member will have the freedom to select any two. The following holidays will be compulsorily observed in the administrative offices of the Central Government located outside Delhi in addition to three holidays, which will be selected from the 12 optional holidays mentioned below.
Sl.No. holiday date day
1 Republic Day 26-January Friday
2 Holi 25-March Monday
3 Good Friday 29-March Friday
4 Eid-ul-Fitr 11-April Thursday
5 Ram Navami 17-April- Wednesday
6 Mahavir Jayanti 21-April Sunday
7 Buddha Purnima 23-May Thursday
8 Eid-ul-Zuha (Bakrid) 17-June Monday
9 Muharram 17-July Wednesday
10 Independence Day 15 August – Thursday
11 Janmashtami (Vaishnav) 26-August Monday
12 Milad-un-Nabi or Eid-e-Milad 16-September Monday
13 Gandhi Jayanti 2-October Wednesday
14 Dussehra 12-October Saturday
15 Diwali 31-October Thursday
16 Guru Nanak Jayanti 15-November Friday
17 Christmas Day 25-December Wednesday
According to the Central Government Holidays List 2024, “Any change in the date of holidays in respect of Eid Ul Fitr, Eid Ul Azha, Muharram and Eid-e-Milad for offices in Delhi/New Delhi, if necessary, “Depending on the sighting of the moon.”
“Diwali 2024 will fall on Sunday, October 31. In some states, there is a practice of celebrating this occasion a day earlier i.e. “Narak Chaturdashi Diwas”. In view of this, if the central government offices in a state celebrate “Narak Chaturdashi Diwas (in place of Diwali Day)” There is no objection if a holiday is observed on account of Diwali, if only that day is declared a mandatory Diwali holiday in the offices of the State Government in that State.”
Mandatory and Restricted Holidays List 2024
Sl.No. holiday date day
1 New Year 1-January Monday
2 Lohri 13-January Saturday
3 Makar Sankranti 14-January Sunday
4 Magh Bihu/Pongal 15-January Monday
5 Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti 17-January Wednesday
6 Hazrat Ali’s Birthday 25-January Thursday
7 Basant Panchami 14-February Wednesday
8 Shiva Ji Jayanti 19-February Monday
9 Guru Ravi Das Jayanti 24 – February Saturday
10 Swami Dayanand Saraswati Jayanti 6-March Wednesday
11 Maha Shivratri 8-March Friday
12 Holika Dahan 24-March Sunday
13 Dolayatra 25-March Monday
14 Easter Sunday 31-March Sunday
15 Jamaat-ul-Vida 5-April Friday
16 Chaitra Shukladi / Gudi Padwa / Ugadi / Cheti Chand 9-April Tuesday
17 Vaisakhi / Vishu 13-April- Saturday
18 Tamil New Year Day) / Vaishakhadi (Bengal) / Bahag Bihu (Assam) 14-April- Sunday
19 Guru Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 8-May Wednesday
20 Rath Yatra 7th July Sunday
21 Parsi New Year Day / Nauraj 15-August Thursday
22 Rakshabandhan 19-August Monday
23 Ganesh Chaturthi/Vinayak Chaturthi 7-September Saturday
24 Onam 15-September Sunday
25 Dussehra (Saptami) 10-October Thursday
26 Dussehra (Mahashtami) / Dussehra (Mahanavami) 11-October Friday
27 Maharishi Valmiki Jayanti 17-October Thursday
28 Karva Chauth 20-October Sunday
29 Narak Chaturdashi 31-October Thursday
30 Govardhan Puja 2-November Saturday
31 Bhai Dooj Sunday 3-November
31 Chhath Puja 7-November Thursday
32 Martyrdom Day of Guru Teg Bahadur 24-November Sunday
33 Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December
