FLAGS

• Study of Flag : Vexilology
• Indian Flag, L : B = 3 : 2
• Designed by Pingali Venkayya
• First raised : Madam Bhikaji Gama
•  It was adopted in its present form during a meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on 22 July 1947
• The manufacturing process and specifications for the flag are laid out by the Bureau of Indian Standards.
• The right to manufacture the flag is held by the Khadi Development and Village Industries Commission
• The only place in India where Flag  manufacturing is Hooghly in Karnataka
• The flag code(9 standards) of India came into existence in 2002 January 26

Points to remember

• The flag containing the English alphabet ‘R’ is, flag of Ruanda
• Flag contains football – Brazil
• Temple – Cambodia
• കുരിശ് – Switzerland
• Knife – Saudi
• Lion and Knife – Srilanka
• Sun – Kiribati
• Square shaped flag – Switzerland and Vatican
• Flag which is not a rectangle shape – Nepal
• Maple leaf – Canada
• Dragon – Bhutan
• Gun – Mozambique
• The country using separate  flag at the time of war – Philippines
• Country having flag same as India – Niger and Ivory cost
• Country having no flag – Namibia and Angola
• Flag with two different sides – Paraguay
• Oldest flag – Denmark
• Simplest flag – Japan
• Complex flag - Turkey