New Delhi: Mock drills are set to be conducted across the country on Wednesday amid rising tensions with Pakistan following the Pahalgam terror attack. In this scenario, many people want to know whether banks will open or remain closed. It may be noted that tensions between the two Asian neighbours have soared after India on early Wednesday carried out Operation Sindoor hitting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir to avenge the recent terror attack in Kashmir which left 26 dead.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has not declared any official holiday for May 7, 2025, i.e., today. All banks across the country will continue with their operations. It may be noted that RBI holiday list mentions that there is no national holiday this month and there will only be state-specific banks for events like – Maharashtra Din/May Day (Labor Day) (May 1), birthday of Rabindranath Tagore (May 9), Buddha Purnima (May 12), Sikkim State Day (May 16), Birthday of Kazi Nazrul Islam (May 26), Maharana Pratap Jayanti (May 29).
For today’s mega civil defence mock drill ‘Operation Abhyaas’, divisional commissioners, district collectors, inspectors-general of police, district police chiefs and officers of the departments concerned are on alert for the exercise in areas where the drills will be conducted.
List of districts where mock drills will be conducted:
Rajasthan
Kota
Rawat-Bhata
Ajmer
Alwar
Barmer
Bharatpur
Bikaner
Bundi
Ganganagar
Hanumangarh
Jaipur
Jaisalmer
Jodhpur
Udaipur
Sikar
Nal
Suratgarh
Abu Road
Nasirabad (Ajmer)
Bhiwari
Phulera (Jaipur)
Nagaur (Merta Road)
Jalore
Bewar (Ajmer)
Lalgarh (Ganganagar)
Uttar Pradesh
Bulandshahr (Naraura)
Agra
Allahabad
Bareilly
Ghaziabad
Gorakhpur
Jhansi
Kanpur
Lucknow
Mathura
Meerut
Moradabad
Saharanpur
Varanasi
Bakshi-ka-Talab
Mughalsarai
Sarsawa
Baghpat
Muzaffar Nagar
Haryana
Ambala
Hisar
Faridabad
Gurgaon
Panchkula
Panipat
Rohtak
Sirsa
Sonipat
Yamunanagar
Jhajjhar
Gujarat
Surat
Vadodara
Ahmedabad
Jamnagar
Gandhinagar
Bhavnagar
Kakrapur
Kandla
Nalia
Ankleshwar
Okha
Wadinar
Bharuch
Dangs
Kutch
Mehsana
Narmala
Navsari
Jammu-Kashmir
Anantnag
Budgam
Baramulla
Doda
Jammu
Kargil
Kathua
Kupwara
Leh
Poonch
Rajouri
Srinagar
Udyampur
Samba
Akhnoor
Uri
Nowshera
Sunderbani
Avantipur
Pulwama
Punjab
Amritsar
Bhatinda
Ferozepur
Gurdaspur
Hoshiarpur
Jalandhar
Ludhiana
Patiala
Pathankot
Ajnampur
Barnala
Bhakra-Nangal
Halwara
Kothkapur
Batala
Mohali (Sasnagar)
Abohar
Faridpur
Ropar
Sangrur
Odisha
Talcher
Balasore
Koraput
Bhubaneswar
Gopalpur
Hirakund
Paradip
Rourkela
Bhadrak
Dhenkanal
Jagatsinghpur
Kendrapara
Bhadrak
Denkanal
Jagatsinghpur
Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal
Indore
Gwalior
Jabalpur
Katni
Goa
North Goa
South Goa
Maharashtra
Mumbai
Tarapur
Thane
Pune
Nashik
Pimpri Chinchwad
Aurangabad
Bhusaval
Raigad
Ratnagiri
Sindhudurg
Lakshadweep
Lakshadweep
Karnataka
Bengaluru
Malleshwar
Raichur
Bihar
Barauni
Katihar
Patna
Purnia
Begusarai
Assam
Bongaigaon
Dibrugarh
Dhubri
Goalpara
Jorhat
Sibsagar
Tinsukia
Tezpur
Digboi
Diliyajan
Guwahati (Dispur)
Rangiya
Namrup
Nazira
North-Lakhimpur
Numaligarh
Darang
Golaghat
Barbi-Glo-Kakra
Jharkhand
Bokaro
Gomio
Godda
Sahebganj
Arunachal Pradesh
Along
Itanagar
Tawang
Hayuliang
Bomdila
West Bengal
Cooch Behar
Darjeeling
Jalpaiguri
Durgapur
Greater Kolkata
Haldia
Hashimara
Kharagpur
Asansol
Farakka
Chittaranjan
Balurghat
Alipurduar Islampur
Dinhata
Mekhliganj
Mathabhanga
Kalimpong
Jaldhaka
Kurseong
Kolaghat
Bardhaman
Birbhum
East Medinipur
Howrah
Hooghly
Murshidabad
Kerala
Cochin
Thiruvananthapuram
Meghalaya
East Khasi Hills
Jaintia Hill
West Garo Hills
Manipur
Imphal
Churachandpur
Ukhrul
Moreh
Niganthau-Khaung
Mock drills will also be conducted in Delhi (including New Delhi and Delhi Cantonment), Hyderabad of Andhra Pradesh, Visakhapatnam, Dehradun districts of Uttarakhand, Dadra (Silvassa) of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman of Daman and Diu, Puducherry, Shimla of Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Durg (Bhilai) of Chhattisgarh, Andaman-Nicobar Port Blair, and Agartala of Tripura.
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