December 30 this year will mark the 75th anniversary of hoisting of tricolour by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose at the Cellular Jail in Port Blair.

• To commemorate the event, the Government of India has decided to release a Rs 75 commemorative coin for the event.
• It will be a 35-gram coin and will consist of 50% silver, 40% copper and 5% each of nickel and zinc.
• It will bear the portrait of Netaji saluting fall on the background.
• This was the first time that the tricolour was hoisted on Indian soil.