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Bank holidays 2026 by state (RBI)

Every holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act in RBI’s 2026 list, one row per RBI regional list and date, with the states that use that list. Sundays and the 2nd and 4th Saturdays are not listed: banks are always closed then.

Version: · 652 rows · CC BY 4.0

Sources, attribution and caveats

IndiaDigital (indiadigital.org), CC BY 4.0. Source: Reserve Bank of India holiday matrix.

  • Moon-based dates (Id, Muharram, Milad) can be moved by the state at short notice.
  • States marked approx borrow a neighbouring RBI office’s list.

Dry days by state

Days liquor shops must stay closed, per state, with how sure we are (official order, secondary report, or none on file) and whether a human still needs to check the date. Prohibition states are listed once.

Version: · 56 rows · CC BY 4.0

Sources, attribution and caveats

IndiaDigital (indiadigital.org), CC BY 4.0. Sources: state excise departments and orders listed per row.

  • Election and counting dry days are declared locally and are not in this file.
  • Rows with needs_review = true were worked out by us or come from secondary reports.

Stamp duty and registration fee on a home sale, every state

Stamp duty slabs for men, women and joint buyers, extra cess or surcharge, and the registration fee on a residential sale deed. One row per state, zone and slab, with how sure we are.

Version: · 59 rows · CC BY 4.0

Sources, attribution and caveats

IndiaDigital (indiadigital.org), CC BY 4.0. Sources: state IGR sites, gazettes and India Code, listed per row.

  • status = unconfirmed means no official source was found: treat the figure as a rough estimate.
  • Rates apply to the market (circle) value or the price, whichever is higher.

Court fee on a money suit, by state

Ad valorem court fee bands on a plaint in a suit for money (Schedule I, Article 1 of each state’s Court Fees Act). One row per band: a flat amount, a step per unit above the band start, or a percent.

Version: · 114 rows · CC BY 4.0

Sources, attribution and caveats

IndiaDigital (indiadigital.org), CC BY 4.0. Sources: state Court Fees Acts on India Code, listed per row.

  • States with status unconfirmed have no bands: the schedule could not be confirmed.

Hindu festival and vrat dates 2026 and 2027 (New Delhi)

Festival, ekadashi, purnima, amavasya and sankranti dates worked out by our panchang engine for New Delhi from the tithi at the traditional time of day. Local calendars can differ by a day.

Version: · 141 rows · CC BY 4.0

Sources, attribution and caveats

IndiaDigital (indiadigital.org), CC BY 4.0. Computed with astronomy-engine (MIT); not an official calendar.

  • Computed, not official. Temple and community calendars decide the day they observe.

Blood banks in India (directory)

Every blood bank in the national directory: name, state, district, address, PIN, published landline and helpline, category, components and apheresis, hours and location. Personal mobile numbers, emails and licence numbers are dropped.

Version: · 2,823 rows · CC BY 4.0 + GODL-India

Sources, attribution and caveats

Source: Blood Bank Directory, National Health Portal, NIHFW / MoHFW, via data.gov.in, under the Government Open Data License - India. Cleaned by IndiaDigital (CC BY 4.0).

  • The source was last updated on 2022-07-12. Call before you go.

Licence and how to credit

  • Our compilation and cleaning are under CC BY 4.0: use it for anything, including commercial work, and credit “IndiaDigital (indiadigital.org)”.
  • Government data keeps its own terms. Data from data.gov.in is under the Government Open Data License - India: credit the ministry named in the file.
  • Files are versioned: the schema is in the path (v1) and each file says its data date. Old columns are never renamed inside v1.
  • Machine-readable list of every file: /open/data/v1/index.json
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