Tiranga dabba

Restoring the
dignity of hundreds
of national flags

Restoring the
dignity of hundreds
of national flags

THE Problem

The tiranga that waves with vigour in the morning of 26th January gets soiled with the garbage by night.

With millions of national flags being discarded every year post Republic/Independence day celebrations, we knew we had to take matters in our hands. According to the Flag Code of India, 2002, Section 3.25, “The Flag, when it is in a condition that it is no longer fitting allegory of a display; it should be destroyed in a respectful way, rather by burning.”

With the campaign ‘Tiranga Neeche Nahi Humara’ we did not want to just do an awareness campaign but wanted to drive action and change that reflected on the ground. We wanted to get keyboard activists to get off their chairs and take action.

THE BUILD

Having saved 250 flags in the first year of the campaign, we decided to set a higher target and take extra measures to beat the numbers from the previous year.

The campaign

#TirangaNeecheNahiHumara2019 was initiated with an event created on Facebook.

Prior to creating the event, We reached out to popular influencers, NGO’s, Journalists and celebrities through Instagram DMs, facebook messenger, twitter and emails and we were surprised and excited to see unexpected replies from a few.

To ensure the word gets around and people know what to do, we created a video and a flyer with the correct steps to be taken by a person if he/she is interested in the campaign.

We asked the influencers to share these with the link leading to a landing page. Yes, we decided to have a landing page this year!

VISHAL DADLANI, INDIAN SINGER AND MUSIC COMPOSER
YUVIKA ABROL, DIGITAL CREATOR

YUVIKA ABROL, DIGITAL CREATOR

While we were brainstorming on what to do differently the year after that, We came up with an idea to make a landing page where people could enter the number of flags collected and see the total number of flags collected by everyone. This was our way of not only tracking the outcome of the campaign but to also make sure that all the promotions done by different people and on different mediums lead to a final common destination. Most importantly, people understood they actually need to pick flags, not limit themselves to click activism.

THE NUMBERS

The metrics shown below is the data collected for the duration of the campaign that went on for 2 days (25th January evening - 27th afternoon)

Facebook

Views : 11,031 views in 2 days
Likes : 2,793 likes
Shares : 204 shares

Instagram

Views : 7,243
Reach : 69,744
Promotion links click : 306
Likes : 171
Saves :20

By Linking all our posts, stories, tweet and emails to our landing page, We were able to drive a considerable amount of traffic to the page.

The Landing Page Traffic

While we have more engagement on Facebook, The traffic through Instagram dominates over every other platform.

THE IMPACT

Tiranga Neeche
Nahi Humara

The end result (and what really matters) of this 2-day campaign -We managed to get 940 flags off the ground!