All branches of the State Bank of India, SBI are open today despite a national holiday on account of Gandhi Jayanti. According to an official release, the step has been taken to make up for the loss of working hours yesterday when the banking operations were severely hit due to system failure. SBI in a statement has apologised for the inconvenience to the customers after its centralised server crashed, rendering all branches inoperational for major part of the day. The services were restored to normalcy later in the day. Today all branches across the country will be open for normal business for the full working day.