The Border Security Force (BSF) is planning to install the tallest national flag near the Attari-Wagah Joint Check Post, famously known as the Wagah border.
- The flag at 350 feet is part of BSF’s expansion plans for the visitors’ gallery at the site of the iconic Retreat ceremony.
- The tallest tricolour can be seen both from Lahore as well as Amritsar.
- Currently, Jharkhand holds the record of hoisting the largest tricolour – a massive 99X66 feet – on the country’s tallest flag post at 293 feet in Ranchi.
Wagah border :
- Wagah is a village situated near a road border crossing, goods transit terminal and a railway station between Pakistan and India, and lies on the Grand Trunk Road between the cities of Amritsar, Punjab, India, and Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
- The border is located 24 kilometres from Lahore and 32 kilometres from Amritsar. It is also 3 kilometres from the bordering village of Attari.
Border Security Force (BSF) :
- The Border Security Force (BSF) is the primary Border guarding force of India.
- It is one of the five Central Armed Police Forces of the Union of India, it was raised in the wake of the 1965 War on 1 December 1965, "for ensuring the security of the borders of India and for matters connected there with".
- It currently stands as the world's largest border guarding force.
- BSF has been termed as the First Wall of Defence of Indian Territories.
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