How many working days in year 1997?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1997 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 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1997.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 1997
2. Makar Sankranti : Tuesday, 14 January, 1997
3. Maharaja Shivaji Jayanti : Wednesday, 19 February, 1997
4. Good Friday : Friday, 28 March, 1997
5. Mesadi : Monday, 14 April, 1997
6. Independence Day : Friday, 15 August, 1997
7. Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday : Thursday, 2 October, 1997
8. Christmas Eve : Wednesday, 24 December, 1997
9. Christmas : Thursday, 25 December, 1997
And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:
1. Republic Day : Sunday, 26 January, 1997