Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Code for Indian National Flag

This august I saw a lot of people (I guess unknowingly) disrespecting the Indian flag. I even saw one instance of a guy who was drapping the front hood of his car with the flag. I guess his patriotism was overflowing out of his engine. I think the best way to avoid these acts, is to include an instruction sheet along with the flag when its sold. By the way, please say no to plastic flags. They are not all that beautiful and harmful to the environment as well.

From Flag.de

The Chakra on the National Flag was officially defined at 75% of the white stripe in 1947 (taken from specifications issued by the Indian Standards Institution), but according to William Crampton (1993) this has largely been ignored in practice ever since. To quote from Dr Crampton's notes: "...in practice the Chakra occupies 98% of the white stripe (or thereabouts)", and the spec he drew up shows it at exactly that.
Christopher Southworth, 23 May 2004

Flag code as defined by Ministry of Home Affairs - http://www.mha.gov.in/nationalflag2002.htm

From the wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_India

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