Bihar Government Releases 2025 Holiday Calendar with 4 Additional Holidays for State Employees
State employees to receive 40 holidays, including Guru Gobind Singh’s birth anniversary on 6 January and 27 December
Good news for the government employees working in Bihar. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led Government has released the holiday calendar for the year 2025. This time the state employees will get 4 more holidays than last year.
This time there will be a total of 40 holidays. The most important thing is that there will be a holiday on both 6 January and 27 December for the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh.
Giving information, Dr. S Siddharth, Additional Chief Secretary of the Cabinet Department, said that in the year 2025, 21 holidays have been approved under NI Act, 22 holidays under optional leave (out of which 3 can be used) and 16 holidays under government order. At the same time, 3 holidays under NI Act are falling on Sunday. Apart from this, there will also be a holiday for closing of accounts on 1 April. 36 leaves were given in 2024
The state employees of Bihar got a total of 36 leaves in the year 2024. 15 days of general leave, 17 days of public leave and 20 days of optional leave were given, out of which three leaves could be taken as per one's choice. Apart from this, one day of annual closing of accounts was also included as leave.
General holidays in Bihar in the year 2025
Guru Govind Singh's birth anniversary 6 January ● Sant Ravidas Jayanti 12 February ● Emperor Ashok Ashtami 5 April ● Veer Kunwar Singh's birth anniversary 23 April ● Hazrat Muhammad Saheb's birth anniversary 5 September ● Chitragupt Puja 23 October ● Guru Govind Singh's birth anniversary 27 December
The public holidays in 2025
● Republic Day 26 January ● Bhim Rao Ambedkar's birth anniversary 14 April ● May Day (Labor Day) 1 May ● Eidul Joha (Bakrid) 7 June ● Independence Day 15 August ● Shri Krishna Janmashtami 16 August ● Durga Puja 30 September and 1 October ● Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti 2 October ● Chhath Puja 27 and 28 October
Optional holidays in the year 2025 (for any Use of three)
● New Year 1 January ● Karpoori Thakur Jayanti 24 January ● Last Friday of Ramzan 28 March ● Eidul Fitr (Eid) 1 April ● Eidul-Doha (Bakrid) 8 June ● Anugrah Narayan Sinha Jayanti 18 June ● Haritalika Teej Vrat 26 August
● Jeevit Putrika Vrat 14 September ● Vishwakarma Puja 17 September ● Durga Puja Kalash Sthapana 22 September ● Durga Puja (Ekadashi) 3 October ● Jayprakash Narayan Jayanti 11 October ● Shri Krishna Singh Jayanti 21 October ● Chhath Puja (Kharna) 26 October ● Dr. Rajendra Prasad Jayanti 3 December