List of Holidays – west bengal govt calendar 2024 pdf download in bengali
The President, Council is pleased to declare that the Council will observe the following holidays during the year, 2024.
English New Year’s Day (2024 A.D) | 1st January, Monday |
Birthday Day of Swami Vivekananda | 12thJanuary, Friday |
Birthday of Netaji | 23rd January, Tuesday |
Republic Day | 26th January, Friday |
Day before Saraswati Puja | 13th February, Tuesday |
Saraswati Puja (Sree Panchami) & Birthday of Thakur Panchanan Barma | 14 th February, Wednessday |
Birthday of Guru Rabidas (Followers of Guru Rabidas) | 24th February, Saturday |
Shab-e-barat | 26th February, Monday |
Shivaratri | 8st March, Friday |
Dol Jatra | 25th March, Monday |
Holi (Day after Dol Jatra) | 26th March, Tuesday |
Good Friday | 29th March, Friday |
* Easter Saturday (Christians Only) | 30th March, Saturday |
Councils’ Foundation Day | 3rd April, Wednesday |
Birth day of Sri Sri Harichand Thakur | 06th April, Saturday |
Day Before ID-UL-FITOR | 10th April, Wednesday |
ID-UL-FITOR | 11th April, Thursday |
* Birthday of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar & Bengali New Year’s Day (NabaBarsha) | 14th April, Sunday |
* Mahavir Jayanti | 21th April, Sunday |
May Day | 1st May, Wednesday |
Birthday of Rabindra Nath Tagore | 8th May, Wednesday |
Buddha Purnima & Birthday of Pandit Raghunath Murmu | 13rd May, Thursday |
Id-Ud-Zoha (Bakrid) | 17th June, Monday |
Rathayatra | 7th July, Sunday |
* Birthday of Poet Bhanu Bhakat
(For Darjeeling & kalimpong District only) |
13th July, Saturday |
Muharram | 17th July, Wednesday |
Independence Day | 15th August, Thursday |
Raksha Bandhan | 19th August, Monday |
Janmastami | 26th August, Monday |
Fateha-Dwaz-Daham | 16th September, Monday |
Mahalaya & Gandhi Birthday | 2nd October, Wednesday |
Durga Puja from Mahachaturthi to Additional Day in Connection with Lakshmi Puja | 7th October, Monday to 18th October, Friday |
Kali Puja | 31st October, Thursday |
Additional Day in Connection with Kali Puja | 1st November, Friday |
* Bhatridwitia | 3th November, Sunday |
Day after Bhatridwitia | 4th November, Monday |
Chhat Puja | 7th November, Thursday |
Additional day in connection with Chhat Puja | 8th November, Friday |
Brthday of Gurunanak & Birthday of Birsa Munda & Pareshnath’s Rathyatra | 15th November, Friday |
Christmas | 25th December, Wednesday |
- No substitute holiday should be allowed if any of the festival holidays initially notified subsequently happen to fall on a weekly off or any other non-working day or in the event of than one festival falling on the same day.
- If there is any change in the date of Id-Ul-Fitar, Id-Ud-Joha, Muharrum, Fateh-Duaz-Daham, Sab-E-Barat depending upon the sighting of the Moon, holiday will be declared by a separate order for the date on which the festival would be actually observed in lieu of the date originally notified as holiday for these festivals. In such a situation, announcement of the State Govt. through T.V./A.I.R./ Newspaper will be followed.
- Karam Puja: To be notified later on.
- The Office of the Council will remain closed on all SATURDAY and SUNDAY of each month.
- *Marked festivals/ Occasion fall on ‘SATURDAY’ OR ‘SUNDAY’.