Claim: Banks will be closed on all Sundays and Saturdays of the month. They will be open 5 days a week.
Conclusion: The claim is misleading. There are no official statements made by the Reserve Bank of India on this issue and such fake claims have surfaced previously too.
Rating: Misleading — 
An X post by ‘Zee24Ghanta’ published on September 14, 2025 claimed that banks will now operate on a strict five-day week. The post carried a caption in Bengali which read : অবিশ্বাস্য! এবার থেকে ব্যাংক খোলা থাকবে সপ্তাহে ৫ দিন, দু’দিন ছুটি? জেনে নিন, উইক অফ নিয়ে আরবিআই রুল কী বলছে?
In English this translates to : Unbelievable! From now on, banks will be open 5 days a week, with two days off? Find out what the RBI rule says regarding the weekly off?
It links to a Zee News Bengali article and uses hashtags like #RBINewHolidayRule and #banksremainclosedoneverySaturdaySunday to amplify the message. Find the post below:
https://t.co/zJlHObwzTp
অবিশ্বাস্য! এবার থেকে ব্যাংক খোলা থাকবে সপ্তাহে ৫ দিন, দু’দিন ছুটি? জেনে নিন, উইক অফ নিয়ে আরবিআই রুল কী বলছে?#RBINewHolidayRule#banksremainclosedoneverySaturdaySunday#Zee24Ghanta pic.twitter.com/d6jekh2W91— zee24ghanta (@Zee24Ghanta) September 14, 2025
The article linked in the post states how the bank employees have been demanding for a five-day work week for a long time. It also speaks about some report which was published on this issue and that the government has been considering to implement such a decision. However, there were no authentic sources mentioned in the article, but was purely based on speculations.
FACT CHECK
DigitEYE India decided to investigate this claim and discovered that it is misleading. There is no concrete proof mentioned in the attached article link nor any official confirmation by the RBI on this matter.
We first read the attached article in the post by Zee24 Ghanta which can be found here. The linked Bengali article uses rumor-laden language such as, ”it is heard” to discuss employee demands, without citing RBI documents, quotes, or dates. It frames speculation as “big news” but includes no evidence of implementation. View a snippet from it below –
We then checked the RBI calendar to learn about the holiday system. The 2025 holiday matrix on the official RBI website confirms this, listing no expansions to a five-day week. RBI’s longstanding rule mandates closures only on all Sundays and the second/fourth Saturdays monthly. This is explicitly stated in RBI’s 2015 press release with no amendments which can be read here.
Upon conducting a keyword search with the phrase “RBI declares both Sunday and Saturday as holidays”, we did not come across suitable results. Instead, we came upon an article by the Economic Times, published on 20th March 2025 that debunked such rumours of a 5 day bank workweek.
The same has been debunked by a post made by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) Fact checkining Unit, terming it a rumour. Find the post here:
A news report by Lokmat Times claims that starting from April, banks across the country would operate 5 days a week, following a new regulation issued by @RBI #PIBFactCheck
▶️This claim is #Fake
▶️For official information related with Reserve Bank of India, visit :… pic.twitter.com/MrZHhMQ0dK
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) March 20, 2025
Those are only rumours and speculations on the subject for long but the decision has never been implemented by the central bank, RBI, which regulates bank timings and other processes. Such claims have been made frequently and it was in March and April, 2025 that they appeared and now resurfaced in September, 2025 too.
Hence, the claim is misleading.
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