Along with Sundays and 2nd and 4th Saturdays, banks in India are also closed on various public and national holidays. As a bank customer, it would be well to know the dates on which banks are working. So here is a complete list of bank holidays in Mizoram 2020.
List of Bank Holidays In Mizoram 2020
Date | Day | Event |
1st January 2020 | Wednesday | New Year’s Day |
2nd January 2020 | Thursday | Year Celebration/Guru Govind Singh Ji Birthday |
20th February 2020 | Thursday | State Day |
6th March 2020 | Friday | Chapchar Kut |
10th March 2020 | Tuesday | Holi (Second Day)/Dhuleti/Yaosang 2nd Day |
1st April 2020 | Wednesday | Annual closing of banks |
10th April 2020 | Friday | Good Friday |
7th May 2020 | Thursday | Buddha Pournima |
25th May 2020 | Monday | Ramzan Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1) |
15th June 2020 | Monday | Y.M.A. Day/Raja Sankranti |
30th June 2020 | Tuesday | Remna Ni |
1st August 2020 | Saturday | Bakri ID (Id-Ul-Zuha) |
15th August 2020 | Saturday | Independence Day |
2nd October 2020 | Friday | Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti |
30th November 2020 | Monday | Guru Nanak Jayanti/Kartika Purnima/Rahasa Purnima |
24th December 2020 | Thursday | Christmas Festival |
25th December 2020 | Friday | Christmas |
30th December 2020 | Wednesday | Year’s Eve |
RTGS and NEFT Holidays in Mizoram 2020
RTGS and NEFT are the payment systems that facilitate one-to-one funds transfer in India. People can electronically transfer money from any bank branch to a person holding an account with any other bank branch via these payment systems.
While RTGS works on a real time basis, NEFT settles transactions in half hourly batches. RTGS system is meant for large-value instantaneous fund transfers, while system is used for fund transfers of up to Rs 2 lakh.
Here is a list of RTGS Holidays in Mizoram for 2020:
Date | Day | Event |
1st April 2020 | Wednesday | Annual closing of banks |
10th April 2020 | Friday | Good Friday |
25th May 2020 | Monday | Ramzan Id (Id- ul- Fitr) |
1st August 2020 | Saturday | Bakri Id (ld- uI-Zuha) |
15th August 2020 | Saturday | Independence Day |
2nd October 2020 | Friday | Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti |
30th October 2020 | Friday | Lakshmi Puja / Milad-un-Nabi |
25th December 2020 | Friday | Christmas |
Note: RTGS service is non operational on 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the Month.
NEFT is operational 24*7 and 365 days a year but as this process is based on Deferred Net Settlement (DNS); the transfer of funds are carried out on a half-hourly basis starting from 12:30 am to 12:00 pm.
Bank Holidays on Saturdays in Mizoram 2020
Banks do not remain open on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of every month and the 5th Saturday is a working day for banks if a particular month has five Saturdays. The following is the list of Saturday bank holidays in Mizoram 2020:
Date | Event |
11th January 2020 | 2nd Saturday |
25th January 2020 | 4th Saturday |
8th February 2020 | 2nd Saturday |
22nd February 2020 | 4th Saturday |
7th March 2020 | 2nd Saturday |
21st March 2020 | 4th Saturday |
11th April 2020 | 2nd Saturday |
25th April 2020 | 4th Saturday |
9th May 2020 | 2nd Saturday |
23rd May 2020 | 4th Saturday |
13th June 2020 | 2nd Saturday |
27th June 2020 | 4th Saturday |
11th July 2020 | 2nd Saturday |
25th July 2020 | 4th Saturday |
1st August 2020 | 1st Saturday (Bakri ID- Id-Ul-Zuha) |
8th August 2020 | 2nd Saturday |
15th August 2020 | 3rd Saturday (Independence Day) |
22nd August 2020 | 4th Saturday |
12th September 2020 | 2nd Saturday |
26th September 2020 | 4th Saturday |
10th October 2020 | 2nd Saturday |
24th October 2020 | 4th Saturday |
14th November 2020 | 2nd Saturday |
28th November 2020 | 4th Saturday |
12th December 2020 | 2nd Saturday |
26th December 2020 | 4th Saturday |
Banking Service Available on Bank Holidays in Mizoram
Banks are not always open so if a customer wishes to make a bank transaction on bank holidays, he/she may do so through any one of the following ways:
- Immediate Payment Service (IMPS)
- Unified Payments Interface (UPI)
- Access to Net-banking and Mobile-banking services
- ATM Services
- Cheque Drop facility at ATM/other Cheque Drop-boxes