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How many working days in year 2003?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2003 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 2003.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 2003
2. Makar Sankranti : Tuesday, 14 January, 2003
3. Maharaja Shivaji Jayanti : Wednesday, 19 February, 2003
4. Mesadi : Monday, 14 April, 2003
5. Good Friday : Friday, 18 April, 2003
6. Independence Day : Friday, 15 August, 2003
7. Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday : Thursday, 2 October, 2003
8. Christmas Eve : Wednesday, 24 December, 2003
9. Christmas : Thursday, 25 December, 2003

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. Republic Day : Sunday, 26 January, 2003