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2. What is the nickname of our National-flag?

Ans. We fondly call our flag Tiranga, meaning having three colours. The nickname, however, is a misnomer because the flag in fact has four colours not three as is commonly understood. The forth colour blue of the Chakra is often not mentioned being a secondary colour in the flag.

3. When was the National-flag for Independent India adopted?

Ans. After the British government declared to free India on the 15th of August 1947, Indian leaders realized the need to have a National-flag for Independent India. Accordingly, an ad-hoc Flag Committee was formed to finalize the Flag. On its recommendation the Constituent Assembly on 22nd July 1947 adopted the Tiranga as the National-flag for free-India.

4. Name the person, whose design of the National flag for free-India was finally accepted by the Constituent Assembly in 1947.

Ans. The design of the National-flag for Independent India submitted by Mrs. Suriaya Badr-ud-Din Tyabi was finally approved and accepted by the Flag Committee on 17th July 1947. She was an artist of repute and her husband B.H.F.Tyabji (ICS) was then a Deputy Secretary in the Secretariat of the Constituent Assembly.

5. After India became an independent State, where did the first outdoor official flag hoisting take place in the world on the 15th of August, 1947?

Ans. The first outdoor official flag hoisting of Tiranga on the 15th of August 1947, took place in Canberra, Australia at the residence of Sir Raghunath Paranype, the High Commission of India in Australia at 1200 hrs local time and at 0730hrs IST which means three hours in advance of the first flag hoisting in India that took place at 10:30AM on the day at the present day Parliament House.

6. The National Anthem of India “Jana-Gana- Mana” was adopted on the 24th of January, 1950 then which anthem was played / sung at the UN Headquarters in Washington on the 15th of August, 1947, when the Tiranga was first hoisted there amidst the flags of other free nations of the world?

Ans. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s version of “Jana-Gana-Mana” was played at the UN HQ’s as the National Anthem of India. Netaji had recorded the song as his army’s anthem while he was in Germany. The UN HQ’s had a disc of the song available with them and the same was played by the UN orchestra while hoisting the Tiranga. Interestingly, Jana-Gana-Mana by then had not being adopted as the National Anthem of India.

7. On the midnight of the 14-15 August, 1947 after the official declaration of India’s Independence in the Central Hall of the Council House (now known as Parliament House) a lady leading a group of 72 womenhad presented the first Tiranga to Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the Chariman of the Constitutent Assembly. Name the lady.?

Ans. She was Mrs. Hansa Mehta from Gujarat, an educationist, orator and a freedom fighter who was i m - p r i s o n e d several times by the British India Government. She was known in her circle as a dictator. Mrs. Mehta died at the age of 98 in Bombay in 1995.

8.Who said in the Council House on the midnight of the 14th-15th of August, 1947, “It is in the fitness of things that the first flag of free-India that is to fly over this August House should be a gift from the women of India”?

Ans. It was Mrs.Hansa Mehta who made this emotional statement, while presenting the first Tiranga to Dr.Rajendra Prasad, the then chairman of the Constituent Assembly

9. Where did the first flag hoisting take place in India after the first Indian government took the oath of office on the 15th of August 1947?

Ans: At the Council House (now known as Parliament House) at 10:30am. The Union Jack there was lowered for the last time personally by Lord Louis Mountbatten, the first Governor General of India, giving way to the Tiranga, which was raised for the first time on the flagmast by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

10. When was Tiranga unfurled for the first time on the ramparts of the Red Fort after Independence?

Ans. On the 16th of August 1947, which was a Saturday, at 8.30 A.M. On the 15th of August as both, theJawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime-Minister of India were pre-occupied with many other inevitable official formalities, the flag hoisting at Red Fort was planned and executed on the next day i.e.,16th August 1947.

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