Sheikh Abdullah’s birthday dropped from list of holidays in Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu, Dec 28: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has dropped ex-chief minister Sheikh Abdullah's birth anniversary and Martyrs' Day from its list of public holidays for 2020, but October 26 which is observed as 'Accession Day' figures in it.
According to the list issued late on Friday night by GL Sharma, the deputy secretary of the General Administration Department, 27 public holidays will be observed throughout the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in 2020, compared to 28 in the previous calendar year.
Two public holidays -- Martyrs' Day observed on July 13 and the birth anniversary of Sheikh Abdullah on December 5 -- have been dropped from the list of holidays for the year 2020, an order stated.
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However,
October
26
is
in
the
list
of
public
holidays
for
the
next
year
as
Accession
Day.
Apart
from
these,
there
are
46
holidays,
including
four
provincial
holidays
for
Kashmir
region,
three
for
Jammu,
eight
local
holidays
and
four
restricted
holidays
in
2020.
There
were
47
holidays
in
the
2019
calendar
year.
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