Fourth Saturday holiday for Karnataka government employees

Meanwhile, the employee’s casual leave will be reduced from 15 to 10 in a year, while the other existing general holidays remain the same. The new policy would only come to effect from the year 2020 since the government has already drawn a calendar of working days and holidays for 2019.

Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, said, “The decision was taken after studying the five-day work week policy which is implemented already in more than a dozen states in the country.” The government has not taken any decision to scrap holidays on birthdays/jayantis of prominent personalities.