Even as a controversy rages over the Central government’s permission to import machine-made and polyester national flags, Union Minister for Tourism and Culture G. Kishan Reddy has asserted that the “khadi industry in the country cannot meet such a huge demand.”
“We have given orders to all the khadi and cottage industries in the country. We need crores of flags for the Har Ghar Tiranga programme planned recently. They cannot meet the demand in such a short duration. You need to understand,” Mr. Krishan Reddy said while replying to a question posed by the media here on Sunday on the opposition parties’ objection to the tweaking of the Flag Code of India-2002, and permitting import of machine-made polyester flags.
