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National
Flag
The Indian flag was
designed as a symbol of freedom. The late Prime Minister Nehru
called it a flag not only of freedom for ourselves, but a symbol of
freedom to all people.
The flag is a horizontal
tricolour in equal proportion of deep saffron on the top, white in
the middle and dark green at the bottom. The ratio of the width to
the length of the flag is two is to three. In the centre of the
white band, there is a wheel in navy blue to indicate the Dharma
Chakra, the wheel of law in the Sarnath Lion Capital. Its diameter
approximates the width of the white band and it has 24 spokes. The
saffron stands for courage, sacrifice and the spirit of
renunciation; the white, for purity and truth; the green for faith
and fertility.
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