Telangana Holidays List 2020

News About Telangana Holidays list

• January 22 declared holiday for Telangana areas during civic polls

  District collectors have been issued orders by the State Election Commission to declare a local holiday on 22 January in areas where polling would be conducted for the municipal elections. The Commissioner of Labor has directed that it be a paid holiday for establishments and shops in areas where elections are held. This would be under the Telangana Shops and Establishment Act. Managements of public undertakings have been requested to let off their employees for 3 hours for voting purposes on that day if they are outside the municipal areas. The elections will be conducted in 9 municipal corporations and 120 municipalities.

  

  20 January 2020

• Telangana to get 5 holidays for Sankranti

  9 January 2020

  Earlier, the Telangana government had announced a six-day holiday for schools on occasion of Sankranti. However, the government has reduced the number of holidays to five. All schools will remain open on 11 January 2020. Vijay Kumar, the Education Department Commissioner, passed an order stating that all colleges and schools will work on 11 January 2020. Earlier, the education department had requested all colleges and schools to remain open on all second Saturdays from January to April as the Dasara holidays were extended because of the TSRTC strike. However, the teachers’ union expressed dissatisfaction because of the announcement made by the government. According to them, they had already booked tickets to go to their hometown because of the festival holidays. An appeal has been made by the Telangana State United Teachers’ Federation (TSUTF) to the government to reconsider the decision.

  

  9 January 2020

• Educational institutions in Telangana reopened on 21 October after TSRTC strike

  Educational institutions in Telangana reopened on 21 October after a prolonged strike by the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation workers, which, however, is still continuing. The Chief Minister, K Chandrashekhar Rao, stated that bus passes would still be valid. The Transport Joint Commissioner and Secretary stated that the bus fare would be the same. Although the colleges and schools were supposed to reopen on 14 October, it had to be postponed because their buses were used for public transportation instead. The strike had begun on 15 October over more than 25 demands raised by the workers.

  

  21 October 2019

• KCR government extends Dussehra holiday

  The Telangana Government led by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao held a meeting to discuss the ongoing Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) strike on Sunday.

  The government has also decided to extend the Dussehra holidays for all the schools and colleges in India till October 20.

  The employees from TSRTC have called for a strike on October 19. However, the transport will be operational for the next three days.

  The government has made it clear that TSRTC employees who are not part of the strike will be paid the salary. The government is also planning to rehire retired TSRTC drivers and police drivers in order to operate buses in Telangana.

  

  14 October 2019

• Public Holiday in Telangana on the Election Day

  Telangana government has declared 11th April (Thursday) as a public holiday in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

  The polling is going to take place for 17 parliamentary constituencies in the state. All the government offices and educational institutions in the polling areas hence remain closed on the Election Day.

  However, the offices and schools which act as polling centers are given two-day holiday on both 10th and 11th of April for the arrangements.

  For all the companies, factories and shops within the 17 polling areas, the government has declared a paid holiday.

  The state chief secretary, SK Joshi has sent a notification in the same regard to all the district collectors. 

  Apparently, the government has also decided to declare 23rd May also as a holiday as it the election results day.

  

  1 April 2019