Federal Government announced Public And Optional Holidays For The Year 2020-Notification

Islamabad, the 5^th December, 2019

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Subject:                       PUBLIC AND OPTIONAL HOLIDAYS FOR THE YEAR, 2020.

The Public and Optional holidays regarding festivals of Muslims and Minorities for the Calendar Year 2020 would be as under:

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

Sr. No.	Name of Occasion	Days	Dates during year 2020
1	Kashmir Day	Wednesday	5th February, 2020
2	Pakistan Day	Monday	23rd March 2020
3	Labour Day	Friday	1st May 2020
4	Eid-ul-Fitr (1st Shawal 1441A.H)	Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday	25th,26th and 27th May 2020
5	Eid-ul-Azha (10st  Ail Haj 1441A.H)	Friday, Saturday and Sunday	31st July,1st and 2nd August 2020
6	Independence	Friday	14th August 2020
7	Ashura (9th and 10th Moharram 1442 A.H)	Saturday and Sunday	29th and 30th august
8	Eid Milad-un-Nabi (12th Rabi-ul-Awal 1442 A.H)	Friday	30th October 2020
9	Quaid-e-Azam Day/ Christmas	Friday	25th December 2020
10	Day after Christmas	Saturday	26th December 2020 (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:

Sr. No.	Day/ Date
1	1st January, 2020 (Wednesday)
2	24th April,2020 (Friday) corresponding to 1st Ramazan 1441AH (subject to appearance of moon)
3	1st July, 2020 (Wednesday)

NOTE:  In case of Muslim Festivals, the dates of Holidays are based on anticipated dates and are subject to appearance of moon for which a separate notification will be issued by Mo Interior.

OPTIONAL HOLIDAYS

Sr. No.	Name of Occasion	Days	Dates during the year 2020
1.	New Year Day	Wednesday	1 January, 2020
2.	Basant Punchami	Tuesday	16th Feb 2021
3.	Basant Punchami	Wednesday	29 January, 2020
4.	Shivaratri	Friday	21 Feb, 2020
5.	Holi	Monday	9th March 2020
6.	Dulhandi	Tuesday	10 March, 2020
7.	Shab-e-Meraj (27 Rajab 1441 A.H)	Monday	23 March, 2020
8.	Shab-e-Barat (15th Shaban 1441 A.H)	Thursday	9th April, 2020
9.	Good Friday	Friday	10th April, 2020
10.	Easter/Day After Easter	Sunday & Monday	12 and 13th April, 2020
11.	Baisakhi	Monday	13 April, 2020
12.	Eid-e-Rizwan (Bahai’s Community only)	Monday	20th April, 2020
13.	Buddha Purnima	Thursday	7th  May 2020
14.	Janam Ashtami	Tuesday	11th August 2020
15.	Nauroze (Parsi’s New Year Day)	Sunday	16th August, 2020
16.	Birthday of Lord Zoroaster (Khordad Sal)	Friday	21 August 2020
17.	Chehlum (20 Safar 1442 AH)	Thursday	8 October, 2020
18.	Durga Pooja	Friday	23 October, 2020
19.	Dussehra	Sunday	25th October 2020
20.	Birthday of Guru Valmik Sawami Ji	Saturday	31 October 2020
21.	Diwali	Saturday	14th November 2020
22.	Guru Nanak’s Birthday	Monday	30 November, 2020
23.	Giyarvee Shareef (11TH Rabi-Us-Sani 1442 AH)	Saturday	28 November 2020

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 that work is not suffered.

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 she/ he is entitled.

SECTION OFFICER (Public)