On this day - July 22 - in the year 1947, India had officially adopted the "tricolour" as the national flag. The flag has remained unchanged since then. The same flew high above all democratic institutions in the Dominion of India - between August 15, 1947 and January 26, 1950 - and the Constitutional Republic of India since then. Here are five interesting things to know on National Flag Adoption Day 2020.

Who Designed The Indian Flag?

In 1929, agriculturalist and freedom fighter Pingali Venkayya had drawn the design on which the Indian national flag is based. Venkayya began working on the flag design after Mahatma Gandhi had raised the importance of envisaging a flag which reflects the aspirations of an independent India. How to Dispose Off The Indian National Flag Respectfully According to Flag Code of India.

What The Indian Flag Represents?

The colour saffron of the flag represents courage, valour and sacrifice of all countrymen. The middle white portion reflects the aspiration for peace and justice. The green colour at bottom of the flag is reflective of India's agricultural prosperity and environmental resources.

What Gandhi Had Said About The National Flag?

"It will be necessary for us Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home to recognize a common flag to live and to die for," the Father of the Nation had said.

When Was The Flag Adopted?

On July 22, the Constituent Assembly had convened to take the final call on the Indian flag. It was unanimously decided to choose the tricolour as the official flag of the nation.

What Jawaharlal Nehru Had Said on Adoption of Tricolour as Indian Flag?

"A flag not only of freedom for ourselves, but a symbol of freedom to all people," India's first Prime Minister had said about the tricolour which was adopted as the national flag. As the first PM of the country, he led the flag hoisting ceremony at the iconic Red Fort in Delhi for 17 years.

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