March Closing: Today and tomorrow, not only banks, these offices also have their holidays cancelled
Closing of FY24: With this Saturday and Sunday, this current financial year is now a guest of only a few hours. Due to this closing, Saturday and Sunday holidays have been canceled in all the bank branches. Not only this, apart from banks, some government offices will remain functional during these two days. Let us know in the news below which government offices will remain open today and tomorrow.
HR Mandi Bhav News, Digital Desk: Only the last day of the month of March i.e. the last two days of the financial year (Closing of FY24) are left. While this weekend has become a long holiday weekend for some people, on the other hand the holidays of many offices have been cancelled. Many offices which are closed on Saturday and Sunday are going to remain open this weekend. Due to the closing, work will continue in these offices. These include many banks, LIC, Income Tax Department etc.
All these banks will remain open today and tomorrow
Among the offices which are going to remain open this weekend i.e. on 30th and 31st March, banks are the first to be named. The Reserve Bank has asked all the banks doing agency banking to open their branches on this weekend.
Due to this, today and tomorrow, along with all the government banks, branches of almost all the private banks are also going to remain open. Agency banks are those banks which settle government transactions. A total of 33 banks including 12 government banks are included in the agency banks.
These RBI offices will remain open
On this weekend, not only the branches of banks will open, but many offices of the Reserve Bank will also remain open. According to the notification of the Reserve Bank, its offices which deal in government work will also remain open on Saturday and Sunday. This means that the headquarters of the Reserve Bank and its regional offices are also going to work today and tomorrow.
All these works will be done in banks
According to the RBI notification , banks will do normal business on both days and will open as per normal timings. Normal electronic transactions will work on both days. This means that both National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) and Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) will be available till midnight of March 31. Check clearing services will also be available on both days.
All income tax offices will also open
All the offices of Income Tax Department are also going to open on 30th and 31st March. The Income Tax Department has issued an order in this regard and has informed about the opening of all its offices.
According to the order issued on March 18, Income Tax Department offices across the country will remain open on March 29, March 30 and March 31. The office will try to settle the pending work of the current financial year in all three days.
Insurance companies offices will open
Insurance regulator IRDAI has asked insurance companies to keep their offices open on weekends . This instruction of IRDA is applicable to government insurance companies as well as private insurance companies. Government insurance company LIC has given separate information in this regard. LIC has told that after Saturday and Sunday, all its offices are going to work for two days.
Long weekend got spoiled because of this
Actually, this situation has arisen due to the end of the current financial year i.e. March closing. The current financial year ends tomorrow on 31st March. After that, the new financial year 2024-25 will start on 1 April 2024.