Blooming Buds School, a renowned educational institution of Moga city, celebrated ‘National Flag Adoption Day’ in the school under the able leadership of Chairman Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Saini and Chairperson Mrs. Kamal Saini. During the morning assembly in the school, the students presented very beautiful charts related to this day and articles highlighting the importance of this day. Presenting charts and articles on this occasion, the students said that every year on July 22, ‘National Flag Adoption Day’ is celebrated in India. The history of this day states that on 22 July 1947, a month before independence, the tricolor was adopted as the national flag in its current form by the Indian Constituent Assembly. They said that the tricolor flag, which has saffron, white and green stripes and the Ashoka Chakra in the middle, each color has a significance. The saffron color represents our strength, courage and sacrifice, the white color symbolizes peace and truth including the Ashoka Chakra and the green color represents the fertility, growth and beauty of the land. They gave a message and said that honoring the tricolor is a national and moral responsibility of all of us. School Principal Dr. Hamiliya Rani told the students that Mahatma Gandhi first proposed a tricolor flag to the Indian National Congress in 1921. The tricolor was designed by Pingali Venkaiah. In the early flag designed by Venkaiah, there was a Charkha instead of the Ashoka Chakra. The tricolor was first hoisted on 13 April 1923 by Congress workers during a procession in Nagpur to protest the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The wheel was replaced by the Ashoka Chakra in the flag adopted by the Adhoc Committee constituted by the Constituent Assembly on 23 June 1947. This is how our present tricolor came into being, which is still proudly swung as a symbol of India’s secularism, truth and prosperity. At the end of the meeting, the students and all the staff saluted the flag by singing the national anthem ‘Jan-Gan-Man’.
