Watch out for India's largest, tallest tiranga

Awestruck by the towering height of the Qutab Minar? Now get ready to crane your neck at a mammoth tricolour nearly as high.

The 22-metre-wide, 14.6-metre-high national flag, made of specially knitted polyester at a cost of Rs one crore, will be hoisted 63 metres above the ground in a park in Haryana's Kaithal town.

That will place the saffron-white-green flag with the Ashok Chakra in the middle at almost the same height as the top of Delhi's Qutab Minar, which stands 72 metres tall.

The flag will be hoisted for the first time some day in the third week of February. As of now, the tallest spot at which the tricolour flies is a 46-m flagstaff built by the East India Company at Fort St George in Chennai.