Bringing cheer to government employees, teachers and students, the State government on Monday declared November 5, the day before Deepavali, to be a public holiday.
However, the Government Order issued by the Public (Miscellaneous) Department declared November 10, a second Saturday, as a working day to compensate for it.
“Since the public holiday has not been declared under Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, District Collectors have been instruct to ensure that treasuries and sub treasuries in all district functioned with minimum staff to attend to urgent official business,” the order said.
The decision of the government to declare a public holiday on November 5 followed representations from various associations that sought to facilitate travel by government employees to their native places for celebrating the festival.
Holidays in 2019
The State government has announced 23 days as public holidays in 2019.
According to a Government Order issued by Public (Miscellaneous) Department, the holidays would be on New Year’s Day (January 1, Tuesday), Pongal (January 15, Tuesday), Tiruvalluvar Day (January 16, Wednesday), Uzhavar Tirunal (January 17, Thursday), Republic Day (January 26, Saturday), annual closing of banks (April 1, Monday), Telugu New year's Day (April 6, Saturday), Tamil New Year's Day and Dr. Ambedkar's Birth Anniversary (April 14, Sunday). Mahaveer Jayanthi (April 17, Wednesday), Good Friday (April 19, Friday), May Day (May 1, Wednesday), Ramzan (June 5, Wednesday), Bakrid (August 12, Monday), Independence Day (August 15, Thursday), Krishna Jayanthi (August 23, Friday), Vinayakar Chathurthi (September 2, Monday), Muharram (September 10, Tuesday), Gandhi Jayanthi (October 2, Wednesday), Ayutha Pooja (October 7, Monday), Vijaya Dasami (October 8, Tuesday), Deepavali (October 27, Sunday), Milad-un-Nabi (November 10, Sunday), Christmas (December 25, Wednesday)