DESIGNER-OF-INDIAN-NATIONAL-FLAG

According to the INDIAN Flag code , the Indian flag has the ratio of 2:3 (where the length of the flag is 1.5 times that of the width). All three stripes of the flag (India saffron , white and India green) should be equal in width and length. 

The size of  Ashokachakra was not specified correctly  in the  national Flag code, but the Ashoka Chakra must have twenty-four spokes that are evenly spaced..

Gandhiji first proposed our national flag to the Indian National Congress in  the year 1921. The flag was designed by the ARICULTURALIST  - Pingali Venkayya - he is from Machilipatnam.

The original design  where presented to Gandhiji with  included two colours, red for the Hindus, and green for the Muslims.

In the centre with a traditional spinning wheel, symbolising Gandhi's goal for making Indians self-reliant by fabricating and their own clothing. 

The design was then modified to be include a white stripe in the centre for other religious communities, and provide a background for the spinning wheels. 

Subsequently, to avoid sectarian associations with the colour scheme, saffron, white and green were chosen for the three band,s, representing courage and sacrifice, peace and truth, and faith and chivalry respectively.

In the early 1920s, national flag discussions gained prominence across the  most British dominions following the peace trends between Britain and Ireland. 

In November 1920,the Indian delegation to  League of Nations wanted to be use an Indian flag, and this prompted the British Indian government to place renewed emphasis on the flag as a national symbol. 

In April 1921, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi wrote in his journal Young India about the need for an Indian flag,

While the flag agitation got its impetus from Gandhi's writings and discourses, the movement received political acceptance following the Nagpur incident. News reports, editorials and letters to editors published in various journals and newspapers of the time attest to the subsequent development of a bond between the flag and the nation.

A few days before India gained its freedom in August 1947, the Constituent Assembly was formed. To select a flag for independent India, on 23 June 1947, the assembly set up an ad hoc committee headed by Rajendra Prasad and including Maulana Abul Kala

m Azad, Sarojini Naidu, C. Rajagopalachari, K. M. Munshi and B.R. Ambedkar as its members. On 14 July 1947, the committee recommended that the flag of the Indian National Congress be adopted as the National Flag of India with suitable modifications, so as to make it acceptable to all parties and communities

Flag of British India, 1858–1947

when India was under the British rule in  19th century. A number of flags with varying designs were propossed in the period preceding the Indian Independence Movement by our reatfull rulers of different princely states; 

the idea of a single Indian flag were the first raised by the British rulers of Indian after the rebellion act of 1857, which resulted in the establishment of direct imperial rule. 

The first flag, whose design was based on the western heraldic standards....followed

Display and usage of the flag is governed by the Flag Code of India, 2002 (successor to the Flag Code – India, the original flag code); the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950; and the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971

The flag, when carried in a procession or parade or with another flag or flags, should be on the marching right or alone in the centre at the front. The flag may form a distinctive feature of the unveiling of a statue, monument, or plaque, but should never be used as the covering for the object.

The design and manufacturing process for the national flag is regulated by three documents issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). All of the flags are made out of khadi cloth of silk or cotton.

When the Indian flag is flown on Indian territory along with other national flags, the general rule is that the Indian flag should be the starting point of all flags. When flags are placed in a straight line, the rightmost flag (leftmost to the observer facing the flag) is the Indian flag, followed by other national flags in alphabetical order. 

Pingali Venkayya

Pingali Venkayya

Born 2 August 1876

Masulipatnam, Madras Presidency

British India

Died 4 July 1963 (aged 86)

Nationality Indian

Occupation Geologist, Designer, Freedom Fighter.

Known for Design of Indian National Flag

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