NSE Holidays

Here is the list of NSE holidays ...

1. New Year - 1st January 2010 - Friday

2 Republic Day - 26th January 2010 - Tuesday

3 Mahashivratri - 12th February 2010 - Friday

4 Holi (2nd Day) - 1st March 2010 - Monday

5 Ram Navmi - 24th March 2010 - Wednesday

6 Good Friday - 2nd April 2010 - Friday

7 Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti - 14th April 2010 - Wednesday

8 Ramzan Id - 10th September 2010 - Friday

9 Diwali Amavasya (Laxmi Puja) - 5th November 2010 - Friday

10 Bakri-Id - 17th November 2010 - Wednesday

11 Moharum - 17th December 2010 - Friday

Looking at the holiday list it sounds really absurd to me that there are 3 holidays for muslim festivals out of the total 7 holidays which are religious in nature ... I wonder how many muslim traders are there... If I recall or understand, it is against Islam to put money in bank giving interest and stock market is big NO NO... so majority muslims would not be in stock market... so if they are not in stock market then why have holidays on muslim festivals???

I wonder why NSE does not change this holiday list ot be more practical and in line with the broker/trading community without any bias... let it be more democratic... or may be NSE and BSE are following dictact from Govt???