Question

Who designed the Indian national flag?
1. Padmanabhan
2. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
3. Pingali Venkaiya
4. Annie Besant

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Pingali Venkaiya

The correct answer is Pingali Venkaiya.

• Pingali Venkaiya designed the Indian national flag.

• National Flag:
  • The national flag is a horizontal tricolor of deep saffron at the top, white in the middle, and dark green at the bottom in equal proportion.
    • Saffron stands for courage.
    • White stands for truth and purity.
    • Green is the symbol of life, abundance, and prosperity.
  • The ratio of the width of the flag to its length is 2:3.
  • Its design is that of the wheel which appears on the abacus of the Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka.
  • Its diameter approximates the width of the white band and it has 24 spokes.
  • The design was given by Pingali Venkaiya.
  • The design of the National Flag was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on 22 July 1947.

• It is our Fundamental Duty to abide by the Constitution and respect its ideals and institutions, the National Flag and the National Anthem.
• The song Vande Mataram, composed in Sanskrit by Bankim Chandra Chatterji, is our National Song.
  • The National Song is taken from Bankim Chandra Chatterji’s novel Anandmath, published in 1882.
• Annie Besant founded newspapers like New India and Commonweal.