Bank Holidays in Telangana 2024

Famously celebrated festivals in Telengana

Tradition and Culture is one of the core factors that attracts numerous visitors across the country. Similar to this, Telangana has a history to celebrating many festivals to honour the culture and traditions passed on by their fore-fathers. Tourist from around visits Telengana during specific festival times to spectate the celebrations. Some of the festivals that visitors can choose to capture during their visit are mention below, which are declared as bank holidays in Telangana.

Vinayaka Chaturthi - This festival is a bank holiday in Telengana. This festival is celebrated in great manner every year in hyderabad. every year on the occasion of Vinayaka Chaturthi huge Lord Ganesh Idol installed in Khairtabad, Hyderabad. This Idol will be kept for 11 days for devottes to visit. After that the idol will immersed into hussain sagar lake.

Ramadan - Ramadan is celebrated very grandly specially in the old city of hyderabad. A special dish called haleem is prepared in hyderabad. To taste this dish people from around the world visit hyderabad. Ramadan is a bank holiday in Telengana. On the occasion of ramadan to offer prayers a huge crowd comes up every year.

Maha Shivratri - It is a Hindu festival. The festival is associated with Lord Shiva. It is an annual festival which falls on the Hindu calendar month of Phalguna 13th night and 14th day of every lunar month. Lord Shiva is considered the god of destruction and regeneration. This festival falls usually in February or March as per the English or western calendar. The auspicious day is celebrated across many states in India. On this day, people observe fast throughout the day and during the night they will remain awake chanting bhajans, visiting temples, listening to keertanas and so on.

Many people throng to temples dedicated to Lord Shiva on this day. The Maheshwaram temple located at a distance of about 50 kilometres from Secunderabad is a major attraction on this day. The temple is believed to be over 350 years old and is built on the pushkarani called Shiva Ganga.

Various Bank holidays in Telangana

Banks will be closed for nearly 90 days every year including Sundays, Second and Fourth Saturdays there are holidays in Telangana which are not a bank holiday in Other cities. One of them is Telangana formation day.

Telangana was a part of Andhra Pradesh until 1st June 2014. On 2nd June 2014, Telangana was formed, and it becomes the 29th state in India. This state is also referred as the youngest state in India. Telangana was formed due to the contribution of the present Chief Minister of Telangana K Chandrashekar Rao. Telangana consists of 31 Districts of which Hyderabad city is Capital city of Telangana.

Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are Telugu-speaking regions. The Union of India joined These two states in 1948. Telangana was merged with former Andhra State to form Andhra Pradesh. Then again a movement for separation is started, Telangana becomes a new state on 2 June 2014. During separation, it was declared that Hyderabad would continue to serve as the joint capital city for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for a period.

So from 2014 June, 2nd is a bank holiday in Telangana. Not only this day there are few more festivals such as Batukamma celebrated only in Telangana and these Holidays are observed only in Telangana.

Use online Banking methods during a bank holiday in Telangana

There are various online methods by using which you do a transaction during a bank holiday in Telangana. Here is a list of few online options which you can use.

Internet Banking - Almost all the banks are providing internet banking or net banking option. This net banking provides a wide range of services where we can do transfer money using options such as NEFT, RTGS, and IMPS. Also we can enjoy services such as mobile recharges, DTH recharges and other options such as balance inquiry statements. Comparatively, we can get a better and more informatic statement using net banking than updating our passbook.

Mobile Banking - Mobile Banking is almost similar to it. We will be getting all the options which we can get using net banking. This method of doing banking is easy and a little handy comparatively. Not all the banks are providing mobile banking app there are few top banks which have not introduced mobile banking service yet. You can use your mobile browser to do the net banking in such case.

You can UPI for doing transactions on a bank holiday in Telangana. Few banks have developed a mobile application for UPI specifically. Few are including the UPI in the mobile app itself, and few are providing both. Either you can use it mobile banking app or UPI app.