Mahatma Gandhi was the first to offer the flag. In this, the spinning wheel was placed between the strips of two colors red and green, which was made "Pingali Venkaiah" of Machilipatnam.
The national flag of India was adopted on 15 August 1947 in the meeting of the Constituent Assembly of India held on 22 July 1947, just a few days before India's independence from the British.
According to the Flag code of India, the Indian flag has a width: height aspect ratio of 3:2. All three horizontal bands of the flag (saffron, white and green) are equally sized. The Ashoka Chakra has twenty-four evenly-spaced spokes