The Government of India has modified the Flag Code of India, 2002, to allow the tricolour to be flown by the public day and night.
- The move will make it easy for citizens to hoist the national flag at their homes from August 13 to 15 to participate in the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign.
- The Har Ghar Tiranga campaign to fly the flag at every home is part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav to celebrate 75 years of Independent India.
- The code has been amended through an order on July 20 to allow the flag to be displayed in the open or displayed on the house of a member of public both day and night.
- The government had in December 2021 allowed flags to be machine-made and be made of polyester as well.
National Flag History
- In 1907, Madame Cama and her group of exiled revolutionaries hoisted an Indian flag in Germany in 1907 — this was the first Indian flag to be hoisted in a foreign land.
- The design of the Indian tricolour is largely attributed to Pingali Venkayya, an Indian freedom fighter who reportedly first met Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa during the second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), when he was posted there as part of the British Indian Army.
- The Tricolour was altered to become the flag of Independent India. Saffron on top symbolises “strength and courage”, white in the middle represents “peace and truth” and green at the bottom stands for “fertility, growth and auspiciousness of the land”.
- The Ashok Chakra with 24 spokes replaced the spinning wheel as the emblem on the flag. It is intended “to show that there is life in movement and death in stagnation”.
- On July 22, in 1947, the Constituent Assembly of India adopted the National Flag. It was a red-letter day in our history, and on July 22, Prime Minister Narendra Modi 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.
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