Burnol moment for Pak! India to hoist flag higher than Pakistan at Attari-Wagah border

New Delhi, October 07: Pakistan is soon going to need burnol as India is all set to install the country’s tallest flag at the Attari border with Pakistan near Amritsar, Punjab. As per the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the height of this tricolour will be 418 feet.

 

 

The NHAI has hired a contractor after getting approval from the central and state governments, an NHAI official said. 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 hoisted a taller flag at the Wagah check post in the same year. The new Tricolour will be 18 feet longer than the Pakistani flag.

 

 

 

"We have approved the contract and the flag installation work will probably start in 15-20 days. The location of the flag is yet to be decided, but as per the suggestion of the Border Security Force (BSF) officials, it is likely to be close to the visitor's gallery of the Joint Check Post (JCP). Due to the height of the gallery building, the present Indian flag is not properly visible to the visitors to the Beating Retreat ceremony," the NHAI official said.

 

"As of now they have no plans to change or remove the existing flag," he added.

 

Yogesh Yadav, in charge of the engineering wing of NHAI, said that the project work would be supervised by Project Director Sunil Yadav. "Once installed, the new flag will be the tallest in India," he said.