School boy pitches for national flags respect

Gives letter to collector requesting him to issue orders to citizens

Devanshi Joshi. Vadodara/DNA

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Zubin Bhatt, a class VI student of Delhi Public School here, presented a memorandum to the collector and district magistrate requesting him to issue orders to citizens to stop insulting the national flag by throwing the national flag on the road or in dustbins.Every year, after Independence Day and Republic Day, lakhs of flags are found abandoned on the roads or in the garbage."It is a shame for any Indian who salutes the flag in the morning on August 15 and January 26 and then discards it later,'' says Zubin. Zubin presented the memorandum to the collector and requested him to issue strict orders to this effect and to take action against all those found insulting the country and national flag. Zubin has decided that he and his friends will go around in different areas of the city on August 15 to create awareness about the same. "I hope my effort brings about some change in citizens and start giving the national flag the respect it deserves. We will also collect the flags lying on roads and other places and submit them to the collector," says Zubin.