Tamil Nadu Govt List of public Holidays

Public Holidays for the year 2012

Sunday the 1st of January	New Year’s Day
Sunday the 15th of January	Pongal
Monday the 16th of January	Thiruvalluvar Day
Tuesday the 17th of January	Uzhavar Thirunal
Thursday the 26th of January	Republic Day
Sunday the 5th of February	Meelad-un-Nabi
Friday the 23rd of March	Telugu New Year’s Day
Monday the 2nd of April	Annual Closing of Accounts for Commercial and Co-operative Banks *
Thursday the 5th of April	Mahaveer Jayanthi
Friday the 6th of April	Good Friday
Friday the 13th of April	Tamil New Year's day
Saturday the 14th of April	Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's Birthday
Tuesday the 1st of May	May Day
Wednesday the 15th of August	Independence Day
Monday the 20th of August	Ramzan
Saturday the 8th of September	Krishna Jayanthi
Wednesday the 19th of September	Vinayakar Chathurthi
Saturday the 29th of September	Half yearly Closing of Accounts for Commercial and Co-operative Banks *
Tuesday the 2nd of October	Gandhi Jayanthi
Tuesday the 23rd of October	Ayutha Pooja
Wednesday the 24th of October	Vijaya Dasami
Saturday the 27th of October	Bakrid
Tuesday the13th of November	Deepavali
Sunday the 25th of November	Muharram
Tuesday the 25th of December	Christmas

 * Applicable only to Commercial Banks including Co-operative Banks in Tamil Nadu