With at least ten long weekends, 2021 brings some good news for people who like to travel and celebrate a lot.

Though Nepal is a small Himalayan nation, it is rich in cultural diversities of around 125 ethnic, tribal, and social groups. The Nepali Government has acknowledged a number of holidays every month to accommodate all the major festivals, traditions, and cultures.

Here, we have enlisted all the public holidays and observances in Nepal in 2021 that includes national holidays, bank holidays, government holidays, and religious holidays.

List of Nepal Public Holidays 2021

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Devotees across Janakpur celebrated the festival around lakes, ponds and rivers including Agnikunda, Argaza, Biharkunda, Dhanushsagar, Gangasagar, Ramsagar and Rukmini Sarobar.

Chhath Puja is the Hindu festival wherein worship the ‘Sun God’ for four days. It is a festival that symbolizes faith, good will and purity.

As part of the four-day celebrations, devotees dip themselves in rivers, maintain cleanliness & purity and observe fasting (without water) and abstinence from non-vegetarian dishes, grains including buckwheat, lentil & millet and a few other spices.

Devotees offer ‘arghya’ by paying special homage to the rising sun on the evening of November 12, 2018 and concluded the celebration by worshipping the rising sun on the morning of November 13, 2018.

They also pray for the happiness, prosperity, wellbeing and longevity of their family members. Chhath Puja delicacies include Thekuwa and rice pudding.

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President Bidya Devi Bhandari, Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba have extended their greetings and best wishes to all the Nepalis across the world on the occasion of the Chhath festival.

President’s Greetings

In her message, President Bhandari conveyed her wishes of peace, happiness and prosperity and hoped for mutual goodwill, national unity, reconciliation and indivisibility among all Nepalis.

VP’s Wishes

Vice President Pun said that the holy Chhath festival would enhance the richness of the multicultural, multilingual and multi-ethnic social fabric of Nepal’s secularism and strengthen the unity, fraternity, tolerance and mutual goodwill among Nepalis.

PM’s Message

Prime Minister Deuba said that Chhath festival would help strengthen prosperity and unity as well as love, compassion and social harmony in the country known for its cultural diversity. He said, “I have taken the Chhath as the festival giving a positive message of emotional unity and cooperation among all Nepalis”.

The main rituals of the Chhath Puja, considered the most glorious form of Sun worship, are being observed today. These include taking a holy bath, fasting, and offering of prayers first to the setting Sun, and then to the rising Sun. Chhath is the only festival where no priest or pandit are involved in the ceremonies.

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The four-day Chhath Festival which began yesterday, is being celebrated by devotees across the country with great enthusiasm and fanfare. Part of Nepal’s biggest festival season and a cultural symbol of the Terai region, Chhath is dedicated to the Sun God and occurs during the four days from Shukla Chaturthi to Shukla Saptami in the month of Kartik.

Significance of Chhath

During the festival period, prayers are offered to the rising and setting sun to receive blessings of well-being, progress and prosperity from the Sun God, who is considered as the god of life-force and energy. As part of the Chhath puja, devotees undertake rituals such as having a holy bath, fasting and later partaking in a feast with various delicacies.

Home-made products are majorly used during the Chhath celebrations, with a preference for sand and bamboo-made materials. The significance of water in the sustenance of healthy life is elucidated during the festival and efforts are made towards nature conservation by cleaning up the water sources.

Expert Opinion

Dhirendra Premarshi, renowned cultural expert and Academic Assembly member at the Nepal Academy said that, “People started celebrating Chhath since ancient times, showing gratitude to the Sun God for sustaining life on Earth. Each activity of this festival represents a relationship between human life and nature.”

This year’s Chhath Festival concludes on Friday, October 27.

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