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FACTS ABOUT INDIAN NATIONAL FLAG

Facts abuts Indian flag
1. Indian National Flag was designed by Pingali Venkayya
who was a freedom fighter from Andhra Pradesh.
2. The Indian flag was adopted on July 22, 1947, just before
India received independence from Britain on August 15, 1947
3. The first Indian flag was hoisted on August 7, 1906, at Parsi
Began Square in Calcutta. It consisted of three horizontal
stripes of green, yellow and red.
4. The National Flag of India, by law, is to be made of khadi, a
special type of hand-spun cloth of cotton or silk made popular by Mahatma Gandhi.
5. The original cloth flag can be made by only one place called the Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga
Samyukta Sangha or KKGSS. They are the only licensed manufacturer and supplier of the Indian
National Flag.
6. The saffron colour represents courage and sacrifice while white colour represents truth, peace
and purity. Green colour of the flag denotes prosperity while the Ashok Chakra represents the
Laws of Dharma (righteousness)
7. The middle white stripe in the national flag carries the design of an Ashoka Chakra in navy blue
colour with 24 equally spaced spokes
8. Bhikaji Rustom Cama was the first Indian who raised the flag on foreign soil
9. Tenzing Norgay hoisted the Indian national flag on Mount
Everest for the first time on 29 May 1953.
10. As per the flag code, the flag must be hoisted in the day time
and there should be no flag or any other symbolic representation
above it.
11. The Indian flag must never be put on the ground and must
never be placed upside down
12. Before 2002, normal citizens of India were not allowed to hoist the National Flag except on
Independence Day and Republic Day. In 2002, Supreme Court of India amended the flag code
and gave rights to all citizens to hoist the flag any time as per the
flag code
13. When a foreign dignitary travels in a car provided by the
government, the flag should be flown on the right side of the car
while the flag of the foreign country should be flown on the left side.

Kiran Singh,

PRT

Suraj School, Rewari
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