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| India Fact File - National Calender |
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The national calendar based on the Saka
Era with Chaitra as its first month and a normal year
of 365 days was adopted from 22 March 1957 along with the Gregorian
calendar for the following official purposes:
(i) Gazette of India,
(ii) news broadcast by All India Radio,
(iii) calendars issued by the Government of India and
(iv) Government communications addressed to the members of the
public.
Dates of the national calendar have a permanent correspondence
with dates of the Gregorian calendar: 1 Chaitra falling on 22
March normally and on 21 March in leap year.
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