Overview
- Tamil Nadu set October 21 as a special holiday for state offices, PSUs, schools and colleges, with October 25 designated as a working day and classes resuming on October 22.
- The Tamil Nadu decision followed requests from teachers’ associations, including the TNPSTA, and input from transport and district officials on expected congestion.
- Odisha granted holidays on October 20 and 21 for state employees, required work on October 25, and exempted Nuapada from the October 20 leave due to nomination filing for a bypoll.
- Odisha’s inclusion of October 20 followed advice from the Puri Jagannath Temple’s Mukti Mandap Pandit Mahasabha citing key rituals beginning that afternoon.
- Puducherry ordered a closure on October 21 for government, PSU, educational and financial institutions, kept banks shut under the Negotiable Instruments Act, and set November 15 as a working Saturday after earlier declaring October 20 a holiday.