The Reserve Bank of India will keep its offices and all designated branches of agency banks open up to 8.00 pm today for the support of taxpayers. Yes, any bank having government banking facility will be open late in the evening for the convenience of taxpayers. Taxpayers can also go for electronic transactions till midnight today.
These extended business hours will also be available for Centralized payment systems like NEFT and RTGS. Across the country, these are some necessary arrangements have been done so that taxpayers can have Government receipts and payments easily.
However, Monday will be a holiday so that banks can close their yearly accounts. But, offices of RBI will be open on that date too. On Monday, RTGS and NEFT will not be functional.
Here, the state government had recently cancelled the official order of full time working on Good Friday. Late at evening yesterday, the state government has issued another order that only Finance section employees and those related to the bank will need to come for duty, others can be on holiday.
Chief Minister had written on his Facebook page that government will reconsider over this notification of full time working on Good Friday. After this, updated notice was issued. After the news published in Imphal Times, several protests were done against the earlier order of state government.