rank of full General or equivalent rank
          Secretaries to the Government of India (including officers holding this office ex-officio)
          Secretary, Minorities Commission
          Secretary, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission
          Secretary to the President
          Secretary to the Prime Minister
          Secretary, Rajya Sabha/Lok Sabha
          Solicitor General
          Vice-Chairman, Central Administrative Tribunal
      24. Officers of the rank of Lieutenant General or equivalent rank
      25. Additional Secretaries to the Government of India
          Additional Solicitor General
          Advocate Generals of States
          Chairman, Tariff Commission
          Charge d’affaires and Acting High Commissioners en-pied and ad interim
          Chief Ministers of Union Territories and Chief Executive Councillor,
          Delhi outside their respective Union Territories
          Chief Secretaries of State Governments outside their respective States
          Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General, Deputy Speakers of Legislative
          Assemblies in Union Territories and Deputy Chairman, Delhi Metropolitan
          Council, outside their respective Union Territories
          Director, Central Bureau of Investigation
          Director General, Border Security Force
          Director General, Central Reserve Police Force
          Director, Intelligence Bureau
          Lieutenant Governors outside their respective Union Territories
          Members, Central Administrative Tribunal
          Members, Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission
          Members, Union Public Service Commission
          Ministers of Union Territories and Executive Councillors, Delhi, outside their respective
          Union Territories
          Principal Staff Officers of the Armed Forces of the rank of Major General or equivalent rank
          Speakers of Legislative Assemblies in Union Territories and Chairman of Delhi Metropolitan
          Council, outside their respective Union Territories
      26. Joint Secretaries to the Government of India and officers of equivalent rank
          Officers of the rank of Major-General or equivalent rank
      NOTES
      Note 1 The order in this Table of Precedence is meant for State and Ceremonial occasions and
               has no application in the day-to-day business of Government.
      Note 2 Persons in the Table of Precedence will take rank in order of the number of the articles.
               The entries in the same article are arranged alphabetically. Those included in the same
               article will take precedence inter se according to date of entry into that article. However,
               where the dignitaries of different States and Union Territories included in the same