Manufacture and Import of Polyester National Flags

The Indian authorities has allowed the import and manufacture of countrywide flags which can be machine-made from polyester. The 2002 Flag Code of India has been amended for this purpose.

Overview:

Earlier policies authorized handiest the ones flags which have been made with the aid of using handiest “hand-spun and weaved wool, cotton, or silk khadi bunting even as machine-made flag imports have been banned in 2019.

“The National Flag will be made from hand-spun and hand-woven or machine-made, cotton, polyester, wool, silk khadi bunting” is what the ultra-modern revision acknowledged.

About Flag Code of India, 2002

Flag Code of India, 2002 got here into pressure on January 26, 2002. India’s flag code changed into separated into 3 sections. Part 1 accommodates trendy descriptions of the National Flag, even as Part 2 offers with the show of the National Flag with the aid of using personal and public organisations, and Part three offers with the exhibition of the National Flag with the aid of using the State and Central Governments and their agencies.

The flag code states that the form of the National Flag need to be rectangular. The ratio of the Flag’s duration to its height (width) need to be three:2. Except on times whilst the Flag is flown at half-mast on public homes according with Government directives, the Flag shall now no longer be flown at half-mast. The flag will now no longer be used as a material in any form, consisting of personal funerals, besides for State funerals or funerals of the militia or different paramilitary forces. The Flag shall now no longer be embroidered or published on cushions, handkerchiefs, napkins, or another get dressed material, nor shall it's used as part of any dress or uniform of any kind.