How many working days in year 1979?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1979 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 1979.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1979
2. Republic Day : Friday, 26 January, 1979
3. Maharaja Shivaji Jayanti : Monday, 19 February, 1979
4. Good Friday : Friday, 13 April, 1979
5. Independence Day : Wednesday, 15 August, 1979
6. Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday : Tuesday, 2 October, 1979
7. Christmas Eve : Monday, 24 December, 1979
8. Christmas : Tuesday, 25 December, 1979
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Makar Sankranti : Sunday, 14 January, 1979
2. Mesadi : Saturday, 14 April, 1979