The Ashoka Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel, is located in the centre of India's national flag, often known as the tricolour, which is a horizontal rectangular tricolour of India saffron, white, and India green. [1] [2] On 22 July 1947, the Constituent Assembly adopted it in its current form, and on 15 August 1947, the Dominion of India recognised it as its official flag. The Republic of India continued to fly the same flag after that. The phrase "tricolour" in India usually generally refers to the country's flag. The flag is based on the Swaraj flag, which was created by Pingali Venkayya for the Indian National Congress. [N 1]The flag must, by law, be made of khadi, a unique kind of hand-spun fabric or silk that was made popular by Mahatma Gandhi. The Bureau of Indian Standards specifies the flag's design and production procedure. The Khadi Development and Village Industries Commission is in charge of distributing the flag to regional organisations. The Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha is the only organisation that makes the flag as of 2009.

The Flag Code of India and other regulations pertaining to national emblems regulate how the flag should be used. Except on national holidays like Independence Day and Republic Day, private persons were not allowed to fly the flag under the original code.The Indian Supreme Court ordered the government to change the rule to permit private persons to use flags in 2002 after hearing an appeal by Naveen Jindal, a private citizen. The Indian Union Government later changed the code to permit only a certain amount of usage. A second amendment to the regulation was made in 2005 to permit new uses, including adaptations on specific types of apparel. The protocol for flying the flag and its use in conjunction with other national and non-national flags are likewise governed by the flag code.The All-India Congress, led by Mohandas K. Gandhi, battled for years to unite the millions of people who lived under British rule in the Indian subcontinent. It recognised the need for a unique emblem that could stand in for its nationalist goals early on, just like movements of a similar nature in other nations. Pingali (or Pinglay) Venkayya, a university lecturer, presented Gandhi with a flag design in 1921 that had the colours of the two major religions, red for Hindus and green for Muslims. Lala Hans Raj Sondhi proposed the traditional spinning wheel, which was connected to Gandhi's fight to make Indians self-reliant by constructing their own garments from regional fibres, be added to the centre of the horizontally divided flag.