The President, Council is pleased to declare that the Council will observe the following holidays during the year, 2025.
English New Year’s Day (2025 A.D) | 1st January, Wednesday |
* Birthday Day of Swami Vivekananda | 12thJanuary, Sunday |
Birthday of Netaji | 23rd January, Thursday |
* Republic Day | 26th January, Sunday |
* Saraswati Puja (Sree Panchami) | 02 nd February, Sunday |
Day after Saraswati Puja | 03rd February, Monday |
Birthday of Guru Rabidas (Followers of Guru Rabidas) | 12th February, Wednesday |
Shab-e-barat & Birth day of Thakur Panchanan Barma | 14 th February, Friday |
Shivaratri | 26st February, Wednesday |
Dol Jatra | 14th March, Friday |
* Day after Dol Jatra | 15th March, Saturday |
Birth day of Sri Sri Harichand Thakur | 27th March, Thursday |
ID-UL-FITOR | 31th March, Monday |
Day after ID-UL-FITOR | 01th April, Tuesday |
Councils’ Foundation Day | 3rd April, Thursday |
*Ram Navami | 6rd April, Sunday |
Mahavir Jayanti | 10th April, Thursday |
Birthday of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar | 14th April,Monday |
Bengali New Year’s Day (NabaBarsha) | 15th April, Tuesday |
Good Friday | 18th April, Friday |
* Easter Saturday (Christians Only) | 19th April, Saturday |
May Day | 1st May, Thursday |
Birthday of Rabindra Nath Tagore | 9th May, Friday |
Buddha Purnima & Birthday of Pandit Raghunath Murmu | 12rd May, Monday |
Day Before Id-Ud-Zoha (Bakrid) | 6th June, Friday |
*Id-Ud-Zoha (Bakrid) | 7th June, Saturday |
Rathayatra | 27th June, Friday |
Hul Diwas(for adivasi and Santhal Only | 30th June, Monday |
*Muharram | 6th July, Sunday |
*Birthday of Poet Bhanu Bhakt(For Darjeeling & Kalimpong District Only) | 13th July, Sunday |
*Rakhi Bandhan | 9th August, Saturday |
Independence Day & Janmastami | 15th August, Friday |
Fateha-Dwaz-Daham | 5th September, Friday |
* Mahalaya | 21stSeptember, Sunday |
Durga Puja from Mahachaturthi to Additional Day in Connection with Lakshmi Puja | 26thSeptember , Friday to 7th October, Tuesday |
Birth Day of Mahatma Gandhi | 2st October, Thursday |
Kali Puja | 20st October, Monday |
Additional Day in Connection with Kali Puja | 21st October, Tuesday and 21st October, Wednesday |
Bhatridwitia | 23th October, Thursday |
Day after Bhatridwitia | 24th October, Friday |
Chhat Puja | 27th October, Monday |
Additional day in connection with Chhat Puja | 28th October, Tuesday |
Brthday of Gurunanak & Pareshnath’s Rathyatra | 5th November, Wednesday |
* Birthday of Birsa Munda | 15th November, Saturday |
Christmas | 25th December, Thursday |
- No substitute holiday should be allowed if any of the festival holidays initially notified subsequently happen to fall on a weekly off or any other non-working day or in the event of than one festival falling on the same day.
- If there is any change in the date of Id-Ul-Fitar, Id-Ud-Joha, Muharrum, Fateh-Duaz-Daham, Sab-E-Barat depending upon the sighting of the Moon, holiday will be declared by a separate order for the date on which the festival would be actually observed in lieu of the date originally notified as holiday for these festivals. In such a situation, announcement of the State Govt. through T.V./A.I.R./ Newspaper will be followed.
- Karam Puja: To be notified later on.
- The Office of the Council will remain closed on all SATURDAY and SUNDAY of each month.
- * Marked festivals/ Occasion fall on ‘SATURDAY’ OR ‘SUNDAY’.