2012 Public Holidays List | 2012 Indian BANK Holidays

Here are the List of 2012 Indian Holidays and Bank Holidays, As we know that India celebrates many festival every year so here are the list of holidays according to these festival and other main days.
So there are the list of 2012 holidays.

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S.No.	List Indian public Holidays 2012	Day	Date	Day Observed
1	New Year’s Day	Sunday	1 January 2012	New Year Starting Day
2	Pongal	Saturday	14 January 2012	Harvest Festival of South India
3	India Republic Day	Thursday	26 January 2012
4	Milad-Un-Nabi	Saturday	4 February 2012	Birth of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.
5	Maha Sivaratri/Mahashivratri	Monday	20 February 2012	Great Night of Shiva – a Hindu festival
6	Holi/Holika Dahan	Thursday	8 March 2012
7	Holi 2012	Friday	9 March 2012	Hindu festival of colours
8	Mahavir Jayanthi	Thursday	5 April 2012	Birth of Mahavira, the last Tirthankara – the most important religious holiday in Jainism
9	Good Friday	Friday	6 April 2012	Death of Jesus is Christian holiday
10	Easter Monday	Monday	9 April 2012	Christian holiday
11	Buddha Purnima	Sunday	6 May 2012	Celebrates birth, enlightenment, and death of Buddha
12	Krishna Janmashtami / Srikrishna Jayanti	Friday	10 August 2012	Hindu's festival celebrating for birth of Lord Krishna, an avatar of god Vishnu
13	India Independence Day	Wednesday	15 August 2012	Celebrates India Independence
14	Id ul Fitr	Sunday	19 August 2012	2012 – End of Ramadan, according to Islamic Calendar
15	Ganesh Chaturthi	Sunday-Wednesday	9-19 September 2012
16	Gandhi Jayanti	Tuesday	2 October 2012	Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday
17	Dussehra	Wednesday	24 October 2012	Vijaya Dashami – Hindu festival
18	Idu’l Zuha/Bakrid	Friday	26 October 2012	Feast of the Sacrifice, according to Islamic Calendar
19	Deepavali / Diwali	Tuesday	13 November 2012	Festival of Lights – a very important Hindu festival
20	Muharram / Day of Ashura	Saturday	24 November 2012	Mourning for the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali / Imam Hussain, 10th day of Muharram month in Islamic lunar calendar. (Also often called as Moharram)
21	Guru Nanak Jayanti	Wednesday	28 November 2012	Guru Nanak’s Birthday – Shik / Sheik Festival
22	Christmas Day	Tuesday	25 December 2012	Birth of Jesus, one of Christian most important holidays.
23	Boxing Day	Wednesday	26 December 2012	The day after Christmas is Christian Holiday

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