Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2024 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 2024.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 2024
2. Republic Day : Friday, 26 January, 2024
3. Maharaja Shivaji Jayanti : Monday, 19 February, 2024
4. Good Friday : Friday, 29 March, 2024
5. Independence Day : Thursday, 15 August, 2024
6. Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday : Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
7. Christmas Eve : Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
8. Christmas : Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Makar Sankranti : Sunday, 14 January, 2024
2. Mesadi : Sunday, 14 April, 2024
