Holiday For Dr. Ambedkar's Birthday
-11.06.2014 mentioned that in the Central Government Holidays list for 2015, Dr. Ambedkar's birthday was not mentioned as a holiday. Now the Government has declared Tuesday, the 14th April 2015, as a Closed Holiday on account of the birthday of Dr.B.R. Ambedkar, for all Central Government Offices including Industrial Establishments throughout India. This holiday is also being notified in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.
The Government has been notifying this day as a holiday every year since 1990. For the last twenty five years, the government had been separately notifying this holiday. Why can't it be included in the general list of closed holidays published before the beginning of every year? They can't. Please see -13.03.2014.
The Sixth Central Pay Commission had recommended that, henceforth, the Government offices should remain closed only on the 3 National holidays. No other closed holidays should be allowed. To enable the Government employees the freedom to celebrate their festivals and other occasions of special significance to them, the number of Restricted Holidays available to an employee shall be increased to 8 with the list of Restricted Holidays being suitably enlarged to include all the erstwhile Gazetted Holidays therein.
DoPT Office Memorandum F. No.-JCA-2, Dated: March 20, 2015