By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: Jindal Steel and Power Limited Chairman and former 2 times Lok Sabha MP, Naveen Jindal, who is also president of Flag Foundation of India, on Thursday remembered India’s gift of largest 207ft Monumental Flag to Afghanistan on this very day way back in 2014.
“#ThrowBack On this day in 2014, @ffoindia gifted Afghanistan its largest 207ft Monumental flag. #ThrowbackThursday,” tweeted JSPL Chairman tweeted@MPNaveenJindal while sharing a photo in which his wife eminent Kuchipudi dancer, Shallu Jindal, who heads JSPL Group’s CSR Wing, Jindal Foundation, also seen at the flag hosting venue in Afghanistan.
It may be noted here that the Flag Foundation of India (FFI) had in 2014 gifted the government of Afghanistan the country’s largest national flag and Kabul’s first and highest flagpole standing 207 feet. FFI president and JSPL Chairman Naveen Jindal had presented the flagpole to Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai had then hoisted the flag and dedicated it to the people.
It was for the first time ever a monumental flagpole of another Country has been gifted by a nation to another Country. The mammoth 60×90 national flag of Afghanistan is weighing 45 kg, is made of knitted polyster fabric called denier polyester and was manufactured in Mumbai. Flag Foundation of India, a non-profit body to promote the National Flag, working to popularize the display of the Tiranga by more and more Indians, with a great sense of pride.
