West Bengal govt employees face reduced holidays: Check which days are affected in January 2025

Many have already made elaborate plans to welcome 2025. However, there is some bad news for government employees in the first month of the year.

The West Bengal government's finance department has already released the list of holidays. It has been learned that employees' holidays will be reduced in the first month of the year!

A government job means a hefty salary at the end of the month. Similarly, multiple holidays are available, starting from Puja-festivals.

However, this year, government employees will get fewer holidays. Two national holidays in January fall on Sundays, so those holidays will not be available.

As it is known, employees are going to get a total of 4 holidays in January. Out of which 2 are on Sundays, so holidays are going to be lost.

There will be a holiday on January 1 on the occasion of New Year. Then on January 6, all employees of the Sikh community will get a holiday to celebrate Guru Gobind Singh's 'Prakash Purab'.

Then National holidays on January 12, Swami Vivekananda's birthday and January 26, Republic Day. But both these days are Sundays.

So it can be said that the eligible leave is lost. Apart from this, only one holiday will be available due to Independence Day and Janmashtami falling on the same day.

However, according to the NI Act, there are a total of 25 holidays in a year and a total of 25 holidays are also available from the state government. However, in some cases, the holiday will not be available separately due to it being a Sunday.