Fiscal Dates

India fiscal year

Fiscal year starts April 1 · Ends March 31

Fiscal year: April 1 to March 31

This section names more than one convention; the fiscal-year pages below follow the government year it states.

From Wikipedia

In India, the government's financial year runs from 1 April to 31 March the following year. Companies following the Indian Depositary Receipt (IDR) are given freedom to choose their financial year. For example, Standard Chartered's IDR follows the UK calendar despite being listed in India. Companies following Indian fiscal year get to know their economic health on 31 March of every Indian financial or fiscal year. The current fiscal year was adopted by the colonial British government in 1867 to align India's financial year with that of the British Empire. Prior to 1867, India followed a fiscal year that ran from 1 May to 30 April. On 4 May 2017, Madhya Pradesh announced that it would move to a January–December financial year, becoming the first Indian state to do so. But later it dropped the idea due to many financial and accounting errors.

Other conventions named in the section

Companies following the Indian Depositary Receipt (IDR) are given freedom to choose their financial year.

Fiscal years

National public holidays 2026

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Source: Wikipedia, “Fiscal year”, section “India”, revision 1374177130 — Wikipedia, 'Fiscal year', fetched October 2026. Text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Source: Nager.Date public holiday API — this source does not cover India. Fetched October 2026.