2012 India Holidays

2012 India Holidays


In UAE, the big population are comes from Indian community, so i decided to gather the list of their country's declared public and regional Holidays. I was amazed to find out that they have a huge list of Holidays within 1 year. You will see it below:

2012 Date	Name	Remarks
January 26	Republic Day
January 30	Public Holiday	Punjab Only. For assembly elections.
February 5	Milad-un-Nabi	Birthday of Prophet Muhammad
February 7	Guru Ravidas Jayanti	Restricted Holiday. Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab only.
February 20	Maha Shivratri	Celebrated on the 13th night/14th day in the Krishna Paksha
March 8	Holi
March 23	Ugadi	Telugu New Year. Karnataka (Bangalore), Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh only.
April 1	Ram Navami
April 5	Mahavir Jayanti
April 6	Good Friday	Friday before Easter Sunday
May 1	Maharashtra Day	Maharashtra (Mumbai) only
May 1	May Day	Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, West Bengal only
May 8	Buddha Purnima	Birth of Buddha
August 10	Janmashtami	Restricted Holiday. Bangalore, Delhi. Celebrates the birth of Lord Shri Krishna
August 15	Independence Day
August 19	Idul Fitr
August 20	Parsi New Year	Mumbai Only
September 19	Ganesh Chaturthi	Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Orissa, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu only
October 2	Mahatma Gandhi Birthday	Gandhi Jayanti
October 24	Dussehra	Vijaya Dashami
October 26	Idul Juha	Bakrid
November 1	Kannada Rajyothsava	Bangalore Only
November 2	Guru Nanak Birthday
November 13	Deewali	Deepawali
November 15	Muharram	Observed mainly by the Shia Muslim community
November 24	Muharram (10th Day)	Day of Ashurah
December 25	Christmas day

In case of any errors or comments, please do not hesitate to drop me a message via comments!

Source: Government of India Labor Office and Office Holidays website

Tnx for reading,

KSM