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