Uttar Pradesh Government Cancels 15 Govt Holidays Tuesday April 25,2017

The Uttar Pradesh Government on Tuesday April 25,2017 cancelled 15 public holidays marking the birth or death anniversaries of eminent personalities.

SCRAPPED HOLIDAYS IN UTTAR PRADESH

HOLIDAY	Date
Karpoori Thakur’s birth anniversary	Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Cheti Chand	Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Maharshi Kashyap and Maharaj Guha birth anniversary	Wednesday, April 05, 2017
Hazrat Khwaja Muiuddin Chishti Ajmeri Garib Nawaj Urs	Friday, April 14, 2017
Chandrashekhar’s birth anniversary	Monday, April 17, 2017
Parshuram Jayanti	Friday, April 28, 2017
Maharana Pratap Jayanti	Tuesday, May 09, 2017
Jamat-ul-Alvida (Last Friday of Ramzan)	Friday, June 23, 2017
Vishva Karma Puja	Sunday, September 17, 2017
Maharaja Agrasen Jayanti	Thursday, September 21, 2017
Maharshi Valmiki Jayanti	Thursday, October 05, 2017
Chhath Puja	Thursday, October 26, 2017
Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel and Acharya Narendra Dev Jayanti	Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Eid-e-Miladul Nabi	Saturday, December 02, 2017
Chaudhary Charan Singh Jayanti	Saturday, December 23, 2017

Instead, students in schools and colleges would now be taught about them on these days, the Cabinet decided today at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

“The Cabinet has cancelled 15 public holidays marking the anniversaries of great personalities. Students will now be taught on these days about these figures through various programmes,” Cabinet Minister Shrikant Sharma said.

He was briefing media persons after the Cabinet meeting.

Mr. Adityanath had in his address on the occasion of B. R. Ambedkar’s 126th birth anniversary here expressed concern over the shrinking academic session due to increased holidays.

“There should be no holidays in schools on birth anniversaries of great personalities. Instead, a special two- hour programme should be held to teach students about them.

The 220-day academic session has been reduced to only 120 days due to such holidays and if this tradition continues, there will be no day left for teaching in schools,” he had said.

In Uttar Pradesh, there are 42 public holidays of which at least 17 are related to the birth anniversaries of eminent personalities.

The previous Samajwadi Party government had declared holidays on the birth anniversaries of former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar (April 17), Maharishi Kashyap and Maharshi Nishadraj Jayanti (April 5), Hazrat Ajmeri Garib Nawaj Urs (April 26), Maharana Pratap Jayanti (May 9) besides on the death anniversary of Ambedkar (December 6).

Mr. Sharma said the revised list of holidays will soon be made available