Bank Holidays in West Bengal during January

All the banks in West Bengal will remain closed on the above-mentioned days. The banks will not perform the usual functioning on these days. All the banks including Canara Bank, Deutsche Bank, Indian Bank and Union Bank of India will remain closed on the bank holidays in West Bengal.

Birth Day of Swami Vivekananda: Swami Vivekananda was an Indian Hindu Monk who introduced the philosophy of Indian Vedanta and Yoga to the western world. Born as Narendranath Datta to an aristocratic Kayastha family in Bengal was a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. He is regarded as a patriotic saint of India who represented India in 1893 in the Parliament of the World’s Religions. In the Parliament of the World’s Religions, he gave a brief speech representing Hinduism and India. Post his speech he became very famous and various tabloids across Europe and America carried stories about his speech in their print the very next day calling him a Cyclonic monk from India. He started Ramakrishna Math along with the sannyasin disciples of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa in Baranagar, Kolkata. On this day, special prayers will be conducted at the Ramakrishna Math premises along with various cultural programmes.

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Birthday: The great freedom fighter – Subhash Chandra Bose was called as Netaji.

His birthday is celebrated with great pomp across West Bengal. Born in Cuttack, Bose was the ninth child in a family of 14 children and grew up to become one of the well-known freedom fighters of India who coined the term ‘Jai Hind’ and chose Rabindranath Tagore’s work ‘Jana Gana Mana’ as the preferred national anthem to raise the spirit of freedom amongst countrymen against the British rule in India. He gained the honorific Netaji (respected leader) in early 1942 during his stay in Germany from the Indian soldiers of the Indische Legion and by the German and Indian officials in the Special Bureau for India in Berlin.

Republic Day: It is a National Holiday. The day marks the adoption of the Constitution of India replacing the previously followed Government of India Act 1935. January 26 was chosen to celebrate Republic Day because in 1930 on this day the Indian National Congress declared Purna Swaraj from the British Regime in India. The Governor of West Bengal will unfurl the tricolour flag during the ceremony. Various personnel from the police and National Cadet Corps will participate in the march past session. The Governor will honour the heroes who show their bravery on this day with Bravery Awards. Apart from this medals will be awarded to the policemen, civilians and children for their exceptional courage.