New Delhi: Taking a big step, the central government has prohibited importing the national flag manufactured in China into the country. The government has made this ban in order to ban the import of non-essential products. A notification issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade states that the national flag not following the standards set in the Flag Code of India will not be imported. It is being said that the tricolor which was not following the standards set by many other countries including China was being imported in abundance.
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This step has been taken after the domestic industry received a complaint against it. According to the flag code, the tricolor can only be made from hand-cut and made wool, cotton and silk khadi. Not only this, only clothes approved by Khadi Village Industries Commission can be used to make the national flag. The national flag usually sold at the intersections is either made of plastic or non-Khadi cloth. Sales of the Khadi Village Industries Commission were also being affected by these. In the last financial year i.e. 2017-18, the Khadi Village Industries Commission sold the national flag worth Rs 3.7 crore. But in 2018-19, these sales fell by 14 percent to Rs 3.2 crore.
