With the nine-member flag committee zeroing in on a tricolour State flag, the government is all set to make a formal application to the Centre seeking a separate flag for Karnataka.
“Once we get Cabinet approval, the government will make a formal application to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) under whose purview the issue falls,” said a senior official in the Department of Kannada and Culture.
The chosen design of the flag incorporates red and yellow strips, with white in the middle. The State emblem is at the centre, but without ‘Satyameva Jayate’, keeping various norms in mind. The committee opted for a design which carries the “spirit of the existing yellow-and-red Kannada flag”. The committee, comprising of Secretaries of the Departments of Personnel and Administrative Services, Home, Law, Parliamentary Affairs; President of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat; Chairman, Kannada Development Authority (KDA); Vice-Chancellor, Kannada University, Hampi; and Director, Department of Kannada and Culture, submitted its report to the government on Monday.
By making a formal application to the MoHA, the government is lobbing the ball in the Centre’s court, and it could be an added agenda in poll-bound Karnataka to claim regional identity under the federal structure.
