Awestruck by the towering Qutub Minar? Now get ready to crane your neck at a mammoth Tricolour nearly as high. The 22-metre-wide, 14.6-metre-high national flag, made of specially knitted polyester, will be hoisted 63 metres above the ground at a park in Haryana’s Kaithal town. That will place the flag at almost the same height as the Qutub Minar, which stands 72 metres tall.

An initiative of the Flag Foundation of India (FFI), an NGO started by MP Naveen Jindal, the Tricolour will be the “largest and tallest in the country”, FFI chief executive officer Commander (Retd) K V Singh said. “It is an initiative to spread awareness about the national flag.” The foundation plans to apply to the Limca Book of Records for an entry.

 

A Mumbai company has fabricated the 40-kg flag by stitching together three bands of saffron, white and green, each 4.9 metres wide. “The flag was hoisted for the first time on a trial basis on Republic Day and we’ll hoist it daily in February,” Singh added.