On which of the following dates, Constituent Assembly of India adopted the National Flag?

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Correct — C, 22 July 1947. The Constituent Assembly of India adopted the National Flag — the horizontal tricolour of saffron, white and green with the navy-blue Ashoka Chakra at its centre — on 22 July 1947, just about three weeks before Independence on 15 August 1947. The resolution was moved by Jawaharlal Nehru; the design retained the earlier Swaraj (Congress) flag's colours but replaced the spinning wheel (charkha) with the 24-spoke Ashoka Chakra (Dharma Chakra).

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Wrong — no national symbol was adopted on this date; it is a near-miss trap clustered around the January 1950 dates (the Constitution came into force on 26 January 1950).  (b) Wrong — this is the date the Constituent Assembly adopted the National Anthem ('Jana Gana Mana') and National Song ('Vande Mataram'), and members signed the Constitution — not the flag.  (d) Wrong year — the correct day (22 July) is paired with the wrong year; the flag was adopted in 1947, before Independence, not 1948.

Concept: India's National Flag was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 22 July 1947. It is a horizontal tricolour — saffron (top), white (middle) and India-green (bottom) in equal proportion, with a 24-spoke navy-blue Ashoka Chakra in the centre of the white band. The width-to-length ratio is 2:3. The design was based on Pingali Venkayya's Swaraj flag, with the charkha replaced by the Dharma Chakra from the Sarnath Lion Capital.

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