The NHAI has hired a contractor after getting the approval from the central and the state governments, an NHAI official said.
Digital Desk: The
country’s tallest flag at 418 feet is set to be installed on the Wagah-Attari
border in Punjab by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
The NHAI has
hired a contractor after getting the approval from the central and the state
governments, an NHAI official said. As per reports and while the
location of the flag is yet to be decided, the official said that so far there
were no plans to remove the current flag. The work is likely to be completed in
a month, the official added.
The present 360-feet high
flag was installed in March 2017 at a cost of Rs 3.5 crore to which Pakistan
had hoisted a taller flag at the Wagah check post in the same year. The new
Tricolour will be 18 feet longer than Pakistani flag.
As per reports, The NHAI,
which is carrying out beautification and plantation work outside the Swarna
Jayanti Dwar of the joint check-post (JCP) in Attari near the zero line, had in
2021 written to the Union home ministry seeking permission to increase the
height.
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