Federal Government announced Public And Optional Holidays For The Year 2015-Notification

Islamabad, the 2^nd January, 2015

CIRCULAR

Subject:       PUBLIC AND OPTIONAL HOLIDAYS FOR THE YEAR, 2015

The Public, Optional and Festivals of Minorities holidays for the Calendar Year 2015 would be as under:

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

Sr. No.	Name of Occasion	Days	Dates during year 2015
1	Eid Milad-un-Nabi (12 Rabi-ul- Awal 1436 A.H)	Sunday	4th  January , 2015
2	Kashmir Day	Thursday	5th February, 2015
3	Pakistan Day	Monday	23rd March, 2015
4	Labor Day	Friday	1st May, 2015
5	Eid-ul-Fitr, (1st Shawal 1436 A.H)	Saturday, Sunday & Monday	18th, 19th,  and 20th July, 2015
6	Independence Day	Sunday	14th August, 2015
7	Eid-ul-Azha, (10th Zil Haj 1436 A.H)	Friday & Saturday	25th & 26th September, 2015
8	Ashura (9th  & 10th  Moharrurn 1437 A.H)	Friday & Saturday	23rd & 24th  October, 2015
9	Iqbal Day	Monday	9th November, 2015
10	Eid Milad-un-Nabi (12 Rabi-ul- Awal 1437 A.H)	Thursday	24th  December , 2015
11	Quaid-e-Azam Day/Christmas	Friday	25th December, 2015
12	Day after Christmas	Saturday	26th December, 2015 (For Christians only)

 2.           The following will be Bank Holidays. However, on these days the Banks / DFIs /MFBs will remain closed for public but NOT for their employees:

• 1^st January 2015 (Thursday)
• 1^st July 2015 (Wednesday)
• 7^th July 2015 (Thursday) corresponding to 1^st Ramzan 1436 A.H.

(Subject to appearance of moon).

Note:

Holidays for Muslims Festivals are subject to appearance of moon for which a separate Notification will be issued.

OPTIONAL HOLIDAYS

Sr. No.	Name of Occasion	Days	Dates during the year 2015
1	New Year Day	Thursday	1st January, 2015
2	Basant Punchami	Saturday	24th January, 2015
3	Giarhwin Sharief (11 Rabi-us-Sani 1436 A.H)	Monday	2nd February, 2015
4	Shivratri	Tuesday	17th February, 2015
5	Holi	Thursday	5th March, 2015
6	Dulhandi	Friday	6th March, 2015
7	Baisakhi	Tuesday	14th April, 2015
8	Good Friday	Friday	3rd April, 2015
9	Easter/ Day After Easter	Sunday/ Monday	5th  and 6th April, 2015
10	Eid-e-Rizwan (Bahai’s Community only)	Tuesday	21st April, 2015
11	Buddha Purnima	Monday	4th May, 2015
12	Shab-e-Meraj (27 Rajab 1437 A.H)	Sunday	17th May, 2015
13	Shab-e-Barat (15 Shaban 1437 A.H)	Thursday	4th June, 2015
14	Nauroze (Parsi’s New Year Day)	Tuesday	18th August, 2015
15	Birthday of Lord Zoroaster (Khordad Sal)	Sunday	23rd August, 2015
16	Janam Ashtami	Sunday	17th August, 2015
17	Durga Puja	Tuesday	13th October, 2015
18	Dussehra	Thursday	22nd October, 2015
19	Birthday Guru Valmik Sawami Jee	Tuesday	27th October, 2015
20	Diwali	Wednesday	11th November, 2015
21	Guru Nanak’s Birthday	Wednesday	25th  November, 2015
22	Chelum (20 Safar 1437 A.H)	Thursday	3rd December, 2015

Note:

• In case of Muslim Festivals the dates of Holidays are based on anticipated dates and are subject to appearance of Moon.

3.         Government Servants desiring to avail themselves of Optional Holidays shall take prior permission of the Head of office concerned and no Government Servant shall be granted more than one Optional Holiday in the case of Muslims and three Optional Holidays for Non-Muslims in a Calendar Year.

4.         The grant of this concession should not result in any dislocation of work. In the case of Muslim Optional Holidays, the number of persons permitted to avail Optional Holidays should be regulated in a manner so as to adequate staff is available for proper continuance of the work.

5. The Optional Holidays are denominational and may be allowed at the discretion of the Head of Office, provided the state of work permits.

6. A Government Servant should not ordinarily be refused an Optional Holiday that is of religious significance to him and the refusal is likely to decrease the number of such holidays to which he is entitled.

Section Officer (Public)