All universities have to fly national flag: HRD ministry

February 18, 2016 17:56

Just in: The HRD ministry has mandated that the national flag should fly prominently at all central universities. The first such flag will be unfurled at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, which is on the boil over the arrest of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar for alleged anti-India demonstrations and sloganeering.

The decision on the flag was taken at a meeting of all central university vice-chancellors called by Human Resource Development minister Smriti Irani. The flag has to be hoised on a 207-feet high pole in all central universities across India.

Pic: The tricolour flies at the Supreme Court

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