POSTAL HOLIDAYS-2014- KERALA CIRCLE.

HOLIDAYS  2014

Sl.No	Occasion	Date	Day
1	*Milad-Un-Nabi or Id-E-Milad (Birthday of Prophet Mohammed)	January 14	Tuesday
2	Republic Day	January 26	Sunday
3	Mahashivarathri	February 27	Thursday
4	Mahavir Jayanthi	April 13	Sunday
5	Good  Friday	April 18	Friday
6	Budha Purnima	May 14	Wednesday
7	*Idu’l Fitr(Ramzan)	July 29	Tuesday
8	Independence Day	August 15	Friday
9	Janmashtami	August 18	Monday
10	Vinayaka Chathurthi	August 29	Friday
11	Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday	October 02	Thursday
12	Dussehra	October 03	Friday
13	*Idu’l Zuha (Bakrid)	October 06	Monday
14	Diwali(Deepavali)	October 22	Wednesday
15	*Muharram	November 04	Tuesday
16	Guru Nanak’s Birthday	November 06	Thursday
17	Christmas Day	December 25	Thursday

(*) Subject to change depending on the sighting of the Moon. The dates for the four  holidays of  Milad-Ul-Nabi(January14),  Idu’l Fitr (July 29) and Bakrid (October 06) and Muharram (November 04) have been adopted from the Central list.  If the State Government changes any of these holidays, the changed date only will be observed as a closed holiday for Central Government offices also. But, if the State Government sanction any additional holiday(s) in connection with the above occasions, the dates of such additional holiday(s) will be observed as restricted holiday(s) only  for Central  Govt. Offices. If the change of date of any of the above occasions is notified at very short notice, announcement through TV/AIR/Newspaper can be taken as authority for such change.