The National Flag of India was adopted as such during an ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on 1947-07-22, just before India‘s independence on 1947-08-15. It has served as the national flag both of the Dominion of India between 1947-08-15 and 1950-01-26 and of the Union of India thereafter. In India, the term "tricolour" (Tiranga (तिरंगा) in Hindi) almost always refers to the Indian national flag (rather like the French usage for their flag "les couleurs", only more formal).
The flag is a horizontal tricolour of saffron at the top, white in the middle and green at the bottom. In the centre is a navy blue wheel with twenty-four spokes, known as the Ashoka Chakra, taken from the Ashoka pillar at Sarnath. The diameter of this Chakra is three-fourths of the height of the white strip. The ratio of the height of the flag to its width is 2:3. The flag is also the Indian Army‘s war flag, hoisted daily on military installations.
The Indian National Flag was designed by Pingali Venkayya. Official flag specifications require that the flag be made only of ", a special type of hand-spun yarn. The display and use of the flag are strictly enforced by the Indian Flag Code.
A heraldic description of the flag would be Party per fess Saffron and Vert on a fess Argent a "Chakra" Azure.
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