Important Facts of National Flag

Important Facts Related to Tricolor

The national flag of our country is the tricolor. We learned about the rules and regulations related to the national flag under many articles. In this article, we will throw light on some such aspects related to the tricolor, about which very few people know. Most of the facts of this article are inspired from the book 'Tricolor Ki Gaurav Gatha' written by Lieutenant Commander KV Singh of the Indian Army.

• The first flag was designed by Pingali Venkayya, in which a spinning wheel was made in place of the wheel. After the independence of the country in 1947, it was amended by the Constituent Assembly and Ashok Chakra was adopted in place of Charkha.

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• We all know and we are also taught in schools and colleges that there are three colors in the tricolor. But these are not true. According to the Bureau of Indian Standards and International Standards, there are four colors in it.

1. Saffron – Symbol of bravery and sacrifice
2. White – symbol of peace
3. Green – symbol of prosperity
4. Dark Blue – Ashoka Chakra with 24 spokes (spokes) has been made on the white strip of the tricolor. The symbol of the Ashoka Chakra is taken from the Ashoka Pillar located at Sarnath (Varanasi). Ashoka Chakra made of blue color is the symbol of India's continuous progress.

• On 22 July 1947, when Nehru proposed to adopt the Tricolor, two flags were presented before the Constituent Assembly.

1. A Cotton Khadi Tricolor Flag – This flag was approved by the Constituent Assembly. It is still sealed in the Cotton Cloth and Container Inspectorate located in Kanpur.
2. A Silk Khadi Tricolor Flag – What happened to this flag is not known.

• First Flag Hoisting – It is believed that the first flag hoisting in independent India was done by Pandit Nehru on August 15, 1947 on the ramparts of the Red Fort, but this is not true. The first flag hoisting at the Red Fort was done by Pandit Nehru on 16 August 1947. Now the question arises that when and where did the first flag hoisting take place in independent India? So the first flag hoisting in independent India took place at the Council House (the present Parliament House). On August 15, 1947, the first Governor General of independent India, Lord Mountbatten, took the oath of office and secrecy at Viceroy Bhavan at 8:30 AM, after which the swearing-in of the new government took place at 10:30 AM. Gaya | After all these programs, the tricolor was hoisted on the Council House (present day Parliament) building. After the flag hoisting at the Council House, the first public flag hoisting ceremony took place in the evening at Princes Park near India Gate. Due to all these programs, it became night, so the tricolor was hoisted on the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 16, 1947 at 8:30 AM by Pandit Nehru.

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• Flag of President and Rajpramukhs of states –  

  As soon as India became a republic country on 26 January 1950, a personal flag was made for the President of India. This private flag had four equal rectangles. The first and fourth rectangles were of blue colour, while the second and third rectangles were of red colour. Different symbols were marked in each rectangle. The first had the national symbol of India – the Ashoka symbol, the second an elephant, the third the weighing scales and the fourth the half-bloomed lotus flower in a small urn – which is the national flower of India. national flower). This flag was hoisted on the Rashtrapati Bhavan and the President's ride.
• Similarly, the princes of the states also had their own flags, which had a saffron colored background. Ashoka Chakra was inscribed in Badami color on this background and the names of the states were written below it.
• In 1971, when the Privy Purse ended, under which the rulers of all the former princely states of the country were banned from hoisting the flags of their respective states. From that time the President and the heads of the states also stopped using their personal flags. In its place, he started the practice of putting the national flag tricolor on the Rashtrapati Bhavan and ride.
• On 17 January 1981, Colonel JK Bajaj hoisted the tricolor for the first time at the South Pole.
• The first flag hoisting took place at Dakshin Gangotri when the Indian Antarctic Expedition team reached there on 9 January 1982. This campaign team hoisted the tricolor here for the first time.
• Colonel P.V. Chowdhary made a sea voyage around the world by hoisting the tricolor on his yacht 'Trishna'. Col. Chaudhary started this expedition on 28 September 1985 and returned to India on 10 January 1987 after covering a distance of more than 30,000 nautical miles in just 470 days.

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• The tricolor is made only of hand-made khadi cloth, be it cotton or silk.
• Khadi thread is used to stitch the tricolor.
• There is only one place in the whole of India, where cloth for the tricolor is woven. That place is a small village on the Bangalore-Pune road, named 'Garag'. In 1954, a center was established here for this work.
• Flags are officially manufactured at only three places in the whole of India, but private builders are free to manufacture it. There is no restriction on them.
1. Ordnance Factory, Shahjahanpur
2. Khadi Village Industries Commission, Delhi
3. Khadi Village Industries Commission, Mumbai
• The weight of one square feet hand made tricolor should be around 250 grams
• On all occasions, mainly flags made of Khadi are hoisted, but keeping in mind the national dignity, silk flags are hoisted on the Rajpath on 26 January and on the ramparts of the Red Fort on 15 August.
• According to custom, only one national flag is hoisted on government buildings, but three national flags are hoisted simultaneously on the Parliament House every day. Each of these flags is respectively for the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha and the Speaker of the Rajya Sabha.
• Prior to 1985, when the work of the Supreme Court was done from the Parliament House, at that time four national flags were hoisted here simultaneously. The fourth flag was for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

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