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Financial institution holidays in March 2026 in India

• March 2: Financial institution branches in Kanpur and Lucknow will stay closed on the event of Holika Dahan.
• March 3: Financial institution branches in Belapur, BhopalDehradun, Guwahati, HyderabadJaipur, Kanpur, KolkataLucknow, mumbaiNagpur Panaji, Patna, Ranchi, Thiruvananthapuram and Vijayawada will stay closed on the event of Holi (Second Day)/Dol Jatra/Dhulandi/Holika Dahan/Attukal Pongala.
• March 4: Financial institution branches in Agartala, AhmedabadAizawl, Bhubaneswar, ChandigarhDehradun, Gangtok, Imphal, Itanagar, JammuKanpur, Lucknow, New DelhiPatna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong and Shimla will stay closed on the event of Holi/Holi 2nd Day – Dhuleti/Yaosang 2nd Day.
• March 13: Financial institution branches in Aizawl will stay closed on the event of Chapchar Kut.
• March 17: Financial institution branches in Jammu and Srinagar will stay closed because of Shab-I-Qadr.
• March 19: Financial institution branches in Belapur, Bengaluru, ChennaiHyderabad, Imphal, Jammu, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji, Srinagar and Vijayawada will stay closed because of Gudhi Padwa/Ugadi Competition/Telugu New 12 months’s Day/Sajibu Nongmapanba (Cheiraoba)/1st Navratra.
• March 20: Financial institution branches in Jammu, Kochi, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram and Vijayawada will stay closed because of Eid-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan)/Jumat-ul-Vida.
• March 21: Financial institution branches in Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong and Srinagar will stay closed because of Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr). (Shawal-1)/Khutub-E-Ramzan/Sarhul.
• March 26: Financial institution branches in Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Ranchi and Shimla, will stay closed because of Shree Ram Navami.
• March 27: Financial institution branches in Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Gangtok, Hyderabad, Patna and Vijayawada will stay closed because of Shree Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain).
  
• March 31: Financial institution branches in Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chennai, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, will stay closed because of Mahavir Janmakalyanak/Mahavir Jayanti.