Bank Holidays in Andhra Pradesh during May

All the banks including Syndicate Bank, DCB Bank, Dena Bank and Catholic Syrian Bank will remain closed on all the bank holidays.

The second and the fourth week of Saturday are declared a holiday under the Negotiable Instrument Act of 1881. On this day all the banks including public sector banks, private banks, and nationalized banks will remain closed and there will be no banking transactions available at the branch offices on these two days across the state.

Buddha Purnima: It is a Buddhist festival. The day is considered the sacred day in the Buddhist calendar. It falls on the first full moon in the fourth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. The people who follow Buddhism celebrate the day with great pomp and festivities. It is believed that on this day, Buddha was born, attained nirvana and attained (parinirvana nirvana after the death of the body).

On this day, people dress up in white clothes and give out kheer. As the mythological story reveals that a woman named Sujata had once offered kheer to Gautam Buddha on his birthday and since then it has become a tradition.