•-It is usually observed that after the national festivals - Independence Day (15th August) & Republic Day (26th January) celebrations are over; miniature plastic flags are seen thrown on the roads, garbage cans, and street corners. There is urgent need for the authorities to completely ban plastic Indian flags. School students, particularly NCC cadets, and girl guides and boy scouts and other students should be assigned the task of collecting discarded flags and disposing them of decently after the celebrations. There is a need for the schools to teach the students the value and dignity of our national flag and to respect the national flag. We appeal to all citizens of Independent India to respect the National Flag and teach the children their children the same by not scattering and throwing them in the garbage and the roads.
Cajetan Peter D'souza, Mumbai
