The Public Works Department is all set for the installation of 500 higher-mast national flags across the city. The strategy will now expense Rs 84 crore against the initially proposed quantity of Rs 45 crore. The PWD (Public Works Department ) had currently floated a tender for the installation of 495 such Tricolours. The initiative comes below Delhi government’s Deshbhakti spending budget.
Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister, Delhi had known as the Tricolour the “greatest symbol of our individual identity” in the spending budget speech. High-mast flags, like the one installed in CP(Connaught Place, Delhi), will be installed in a way that at least one is visible from each and every 2 km distance, he added. Once coming out of houses, Delhi citizens will not return back devoid of seeing at least one higher-mast flag. They will return with the feeling of patriotism and national pride, he concluded.
The Tricolour installed at Connaught Place, which is 207-ft-tall) was installed in 2014 by the Flag Foundation of India, former Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal’s organisation. If sources are to be believed, 5 out of these flags are anticipated to arrive by August 15 in New Delhi, Patparganj, Shakurbasti, Kalkaji and Dwarka assembly constituencies.
As per the tender, the masts for the flags will be 35 metres tall, which is equal to 114 feet and the base will be made of red and white sandstone. The dimensions of the tricolor would be 36 feet by 24 feet.
PWD is also conducting a survey of public areas, parks, grounds, major industrial developing complexes to uncover suitable areas for the installation of flags, revealed the officials. LED lighting will also be installed with the flag to hold it illuminated, study the tender document. Lightning finials also have to be installed atop the flag mast for a direct conducting path.
The work to set up flags will be executed devoid of disrupting visitors, the tender states. A cautious strategy has to be drafted by the contractor so that visitors moves at all the time and does not trigger ruckus. The visitors diversion strategy would also call for approval from the Delhi Traffic Police and of the division, the tender additional study.