Holidays to be Observed in Central Government Offices During the Year 2024

List of Gazetted and Restricted Holidays in 2024 PDF Download

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has released a new notification that provides a comprehensive list of gazetted and restricted holidays for Central Government offices situated in New Delhi for the year 2024. This order outlines the guidelines and procedures for the declaration or modification of holidays for Central Government workers throughout the year. The circular serves as a master document for the declaration of holidays for CG offices located in all States of the country. Each State has a CGEWCC (Central Government Employees Welfare Coordination Committee) team that finalizes the list of holidays for the central government offices located in that particular state. A PDF download of the list of Gazetted and Restricted Holidays in 2024 is available.

DoPT Holiday Notification 2024 PDF Download

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Copy of DoPT Order on 2024 Holidays

The Central Government of India has recently released the inaugural and official holiday calendar. This release is an annual occurrence and takes place in the middle of June each year. The complete listing of holidays for the year 2024, specifically for Central Government offices located in New Delhi, was released on the 16th of June 2023. For your convenience, the full text of this order has been reprinted below.

F.No.12/2/2023-JCA
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions
(Department of Personnel and Training)
Establishment (JCA) Section

North Block, New Delhi
Dated the 3rd July, 2023

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Holidays to be observed in Central Government Offices during the year 2024- reg.

It has been decided that the holidays, as specified in Annexure-I to this O.M., will be observed in all the Administrative Offices of the Central Government located in Delhi/New Delhi during the year 2024. In addition, each employee will also be allowed to avail himself/herself of any two holidays to be chosen by him/her out of the list of Restricted Holidays specified in Annexure – II.

2. Central Government Administrative Offices located outside Delhi / New Delhi shall observe the following holidays compulsorily in addition to three holidays, to be chosen out of the 12 optional holidays indicated below at para 3.1:

1. REPUBLIC DAY
2. INDEPENDENCE DAY
3. MAHATMA GANDHI’S BIRTHDAY
4. BUDDHA PURNIMA
5. CHRISTMAS DAY
6. DUSSEHRA (VIJAYADASHAMI)
7. DIWALI (DEEPAVALI)
8. GOOD FRIDAY
9. GURU NANAK’S BIRTHDAY
10. EID UL FITR
11. EID UL ADHA
12. MAHAVIR JAYANTI
13. MUHARRAM
14. PROPHET MOHAMMAD’S BIRTHDAY (ID-E-MILAD)

3.1. For offices located in New Delhi/Delhi, three holidays are selected by the D/o Personnel & Training and for the offices located outside Delhi/New Delhi three holidays are to be chosen by the Central Government Employees Welfare Coordination Committee in the State Capitals, if necessary, in consultation with Coordination Committees at other places in the State, from the list indicated below. The final list, applicable uniformly to all Central Government offices within the concerned State, shall be notified accordingly and no change can be carried out thereafter. It is also clarified that no change is permissible in the festivals and dates, as indicated in Annexure -I and Annexure II baring a few exceptions indicated in para 5.1 and 5.2 hereinafter. The 12 optional holidays are as follows:

1. AN ADDITIONAL DAY FOR DUSSEHRA
2. HOLI
3. JANMASHTAMI (VAISHNAVI)
4. RAM NAVAMI
5. MAHA SHIVRATRI
6. GANESH CHATURTHI / VINAYAKA CHATURTHI
7. MAKAR SANKRANTI
8. RATH YATRA
9. ONAM
10. PONGAL
11. SRI PANCHAMI / BASANT PANCHAMI
12. VISHU / VAISAKHI / VAISAKHADI / BOHAG BIHU / MASHADI UGADI / CHAITRA SUKLADI / CHETI CHAND / GUDI PADWA / 1st NAVRATRA / NOWRUZ / CHHATH PUJA / KARVA CHAUTH.

3.2 No substitute holiday should be allowed if any of the festival holidays, initially declared, subsequently happens to fall on a weekly off or any other non-working day or in the event of more than one festival falling on the same day.

4. The list of Restricted Holidays appended as annexure-II to this O.M. is meant for Central Government Offices located in Delhi / New Delhi. The Coordination Committees at the State Capitals may draw up a separate list of Restricted Holidays keeping in view the occasions of local importance. However, the 9 occasions left over, after choosing the 3 variable holidays in para 3.1 above, are also to be included in the list of restricted holidays.

5.1 For offices in Delhi / New Delhi, any change in the date of holidays in respect of Eid ul Fitr, Eid ul Adha, Muharram, and Eid-e-Milad, if necessary, depending upon the sighting of the Moon, would be declared by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, after ascertaining the position from the Govt, of NCT of Delhi (DCP, Special Branch, Delhi Police).

5.2 For offices outside Delhi / New Delhi, the Central Government Employees Welfare Coordination Committees at the State Capitals are authorized to change the date of the holiday, if necessary, based on the decision of the concerned State Governments / Union Territories, in respect of Eid ul Fitr, Eid ul Adha, Muharram, and Eid-e-Milad.

5.3 It may happen that the change of date in respect of the above occasions has to be declared at very short notice. In such a situation, an announcement could be made through P.I.B/T.V./A.I.R./ Newspapers and the Heads of Departments /Offices of the Central Government may take action according to such an announcement, without waiting for a formal order, about the change of date.

6. During 2024, Diwali (Deepavali) falls on Sunday, November 12, 2024 (Kartika 21). In certain States, the practice is to celebrate the occasion a day in advance, i.s., on “Naraka Chaturdasi Day”. In view of this, there is no objection if a holiday on account of Deepavali is observed on “Naraka Chaturdasi Day (in place of Deepavali Day) in the Central Government Offices in a State if in that State that day alone is declared as a compulsory holiday for Diwali for the offices of the State Government.

7. Central Government Organisations which include industrial, commercial, and trading establishments would observe up to 16 holidays in a year including three national holidays viz. Republic Day, Independence Day, and Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, as compulsory holidays. The remaining holidays/occasions may be determined by such establishments/organizations themselves for the year 2024, subject to para 3.2 above.

8. Union Territory Administration shall decide the list of holidays in terms of Instructions issued in this regard by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

9. In respect of Indian Missions abroad, the number of holidays may be notified in accordance with the instructions contained in this Department’s O.M. No. 12/5/2002-JCA dated 17th December 2002. In other words, they will have the option to select 14 (Fourteen) holidays of their own only after including in the list, three National Holidays and Id-ul-Fitr, Muharram and Diwali included in the list of compulsory holidays and falling on days of weekly off.

10. In respect of Banks, the holidays shall be regulated in terms of the extant instructions issued by the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance.

11. Hindi version will follow.

sd/-
(S.P. Pant)
Deputy Secretary to the Govt. of India

ANNEXURE-I

LIST OF HOLIDAYS FOR THE YEAR 2024 TO BE OBSERVED IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT LOCATED AT DELHI / NEW DELHI

LIST OF RESTRICTED HOLIDAYS FOR THE YEAR 2024 IN RESPECT OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT LOCATED AT DELHI / NEW DELHI

Highlights of DoPT Circular on 2024 Holidays

The DoPT describes two types of holidays for Central Govt employees given in the circular. One is Gazetted Holidays and another one is Restricted Holidays. The Gazetted Holiday means that the Central Government office should be closed on account of festival or occasion compulsory. For the offices located around Delhi there will be 17 Gazetted holidays listed in the circular.

The Restricted Holiday means is an optional holiday that a government servant could select and take leave on any two days in the list decided by the CGEWCC. This is the privillage to a civilian employee to celebrate their own religious festival without disturbing the government office! For the offices located around Delhi there will be 33 Restricted holidays listed in the circular.

The circular released by the Department of Personnel and Training in 2024 has provided a list of 14 mandatory holidays. Additionally, the respective State Central Government Employees Welfare Coordination Committee will determine three more holidays in the second list as directed in the circular.

DoPT Holidays in January 2024

• New Year’s Day: 01.01.2024 (Monday)
• Makar Sankranti: 14.01.2024 (Sunday)
• Magha Bihu / Pongal: 15.01.2024 (Monday)
• Guru Gobind Singh’s Birthday: 17.01.2024 (Wednesday)
• Hazarat Ali’s Birthday: 25.01.2024 (Thursday)
• Lohri: 13.01.2024 (Saturday)
• Republic Day: 26.01.2024 (Friday)

DoPT Holidays in February 2024

• Sri Panchami, Basant Panchami: 14.02.2024 (Wednesday)
• Shivaji Jayanti: 19.02.2024 (Monday)
• Guru Ravi Das’s Birthday: 24.02.2024 (Saturday)

DoPT Holidays in March 2024

• Birthday of Swami Dayananda Saraswati: 06.03.2023 (Wednesday)
  
• Maha Shivratri: 08.03.2023 (Friday)
  
• Holika dahan: 24.03.2023 (Sunday)
  
• Holi / Dolyatra: 25.03.2023 (Monday)
  
• Good Friday: 29.03.2024 (Friday)
• Easter Sunday: 31.03.2023 (Sunday)

DoPT Holidays in April 2024

• Jamat-Ul-Vida: 05.04.2024 (Friday)
• Id-ul-Fitr: 11.04.2024 (Thursday)
• Chaitra Sukladi, Gudi, Padava, Ugadi, Cheti Chand: 0904.2024 (Tuesday)
• Vaisakhi / Vishu: 13.04.2024 (Saturday)
• Meshadi (Tamil New Year’s day) / Vaisakhadi (Bengal) / Bahag Bihu (Assam): 14.04.2024 (Sunday)
• Ram Navami: 17.04.2024 (Wednesday)
• Mahavir Jayanti: 21.04.2024 (Sunday)

DoPT Holidays in May 2024

• Birthday of Guru Rabindranath Tagore: 08.05.2024 (Wednesday)
• Budha Purnima: 23.05.2023 (Thursday)

DoPT Holidays in June 2024

• Id-ul-Zuha (Bakrid): 17.06.2024 (Monday)

DoPT Holidays in July 2024

• Rath Yatra: 07.07.2024 (Sunday)
• Muharram: 17.07.2024 (Wednesday)

DoPT Holidays in August 2024

• Independence Day / Parsi New Year’s day / Nauraj: 15.08.2024 (Thursday)
• Raksha Bandhan: 19.08.2024 (Monday)
• Janmashtami (Vaishnava): 26.08.2024 (Monday)

DoPT Holidays in September 2024

• Ganesh Chaturthi / Vinayaka Chaturthi: 07.09.2024 (Saturday)
• Onam or Thiru Onam Day: 15.09.2024 (Sunday)
• Milad-un-Nabi or Id-e-Milad (Birthday of Prophet Muhammad): 16.09.2024 (Monday)

DoPT Holidays in October 2024

• Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday: 02.10.2024 (Wednesday)
• Dussehra (Saptami): 10.10.2024 (Thursday)
• Dussehra (Mahashtami) / Dussehra (Mahanavmi): 11.10.2024 (Friday)
• Dussehra: 12.10.2024 (Saturday)
• Maharishi Valmiki’s Birthday: 17.10.2024 (Thursday)
• Karaka Chaturthi (Karva Chauth): 20.10.2024 (Sunday)
• Naraka Chaturdashi / Diwali (Deepavali): 31.10.2024 (Thursday)

DoPT Holidays in November 2024

• Govardhan Puja: 02.11.2024 (Saturday)
• Bhai Duj: 03.11.2024 (Sunday)
• Pratihar Shashthi or Surya Shashthi (Chhat Puja): 07.11.2024 (Thursday)
• Guru Nanak’s Birthday: 15.11.2024 (Friday)
• Guru Tegh Bahadur’s Martyrdom Day: 24.11.2024 (Sunday)

DoPT Holidays in December 2024

• Christmas Eve: 24.12.2024 (Tuesday)
• Christmas Day: 25.12.2024 (Wednesday)

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When is Holi observed in Central Government holidays in the year 2024?

Holi will be observed on March 25, which falls on a Monday as per Central Government Dopt Order.

When is Diwali (Deepavali) observed in Central Government Offices in the year 2024?

As per Central Government Dopt Order released on 4th July 2023, Diwali (Deepavali) will be observed on October 31, which falls on a Thursday.

When is Id-ul-Zuha (Bakrid) 2024 and is it Restricted Holiday?

Id-ul-Zuha (Bakrid) will be observed on June 17, which falls on a Monday and it is Gazetted Holiday.

When is Maha Shivratri observed in Dopt Order released on 2024?

According to the Dopt directive, the auspicious occasion of Maha Shivratri is scheduled to be commemorated on the 8th of March, coinciding with the arrival of a delightful Friday.