How many working days in year 2017?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2017 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2017.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. Basanta Panchami : Tuesday, 24 January, 2017
2. Republic Day : Thursday, 26 January, 2017
3. Ram Navami : Wednesday, 5 April, 2017
4. Good Friday : Friday, 14 April, 2017
5. Raksha Bandhan : Monday, 7 August, 2017
6. Independence Day : Tuesday, 15 August, 2017
7. Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday : Monday, 2 October, 2017
8. Christmas : Monday, 25 December, 2017
And here are the 8 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2017
2. Makar Sankranti : Saturday, 14 January, 2017
3. Maharaja Shivaji Jayanti : Sunday, 19 February, 2017
4. Maha Shivaratri : Saturday, 25 February, 2017
5. Mahavir Jayanti : Sunday, 9 April, 2017
6. Karaka Chaturthi (Karva Chouth) : Sunday, 8 October, 2017
7. Bhai Duj : Saturday, 21 October, 2017
8. Christmas Eve : Sunday, 24 December, 2017