National Flag of India

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• This year, the Prime Minister of India led the nation in recalling the monumental courage and efforts of all those who dreamt of a flag for free India when we were fighting colonial rule.

National Flag of India

• Dr Rajendra Prasad announced that the first item on the agenda was “a Motion by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru about the Flag”. 
• It was adopted in its present form during the meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on 22 July 1947, a few days before India’s independence from the British on 15 August 1947. 
• In India, the term “tricolour” refers to the Indian national flag.

• Designed by: 
  • Pingali Venkayya.

• Description :
  • The National flag of India is a horizontal tricolour of deep saffron (Kesari) at the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom in equal proportion. 
  • The ratio of the width of the flag to its length is two to three. 
  • In the centre of the white band is a navy blue wheel which represents the chakra. 
    • This Dharma Chakra depicted the “wheel of the law” in the Sarnath Lion Capital made by the 3rd-century BC Mauryan Emperor Ashoka. 
    • The chakra intends to show that there is life in movement and death in stagnation.
  • Its design is that of the wheel which appears on the abacus of the Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka. 
  • Its diameter approximates the width of the white band and it has 24 spokes.

Source:IE