Brace up for bank holidays!

Customers will have to plan their bank transactions in the first week of April that has a string of holidays though not in a row. Beginning April 1, every alternate day is a holiday for banks.

April 1 is a holiday for reconciliation of bank accounts after the closure of the financial year. March 31 is a working day.

Banks will work on April 2 but will close again on April 3 for Good Friday.

The next day, though banks work, it’s only for half a day April 4 being a Saturday. Sunday follows bringing another closed holiday.

While money can be drawn from ATMs, for other important transactions that need to be done at the bank one has to plan. However, with e-banking centres, net banking and cash deposit machines the problem would not be much, said representative of a bank union.

Even if there is a run on the ATMs, they could be loaded again as banks work on alternate days, said banking sources.