Table of Precedence in Administration

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1. President.

2. Vice-President.

3. Prime Minister.

4. Governors of States within their respective States.

5. Former Presidents. 5A, Deputy Prime Ministers.

6. Chief Justice of India.  Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

7.

• Cabinet Ministers of the Union.

• Chief Ministers of State within their respective States.

• Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission.

• Leaders of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabba.

8. 

• Ambassadors Extraordinary and pleniretentiary and High Comimissioners of Commonwealth countries accredited to India.

• Chief Ministers of States outside their respective  States.

• Governors of States outside their respective States.

9. Judges of the Supreme Court.

10. 

• Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha.

• Deputy Chief Ministers of States.

• Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha.

• Members of the Planning Commission,

• Ministers of State of the Union.

11. 

• Attorney-General of India.

• Cabinet Secretary.

• Comptroller and Auditor- General of India.

• Lieutenant Governors within their respective Union Territories.

12. Chiefs of Staff holding the rank of full General or equivalent rank.

13. Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers plenipotenary accredited to India.

14.

• Chairmen and Speakers of State Legislatures within their respective States.

• Chief Justices of High Courts within their respective jurisdictions

15. 

• Cabinet Ministers in States within their respective States.

• Chief Ministers of Union Territories and Chief Executive Councillor, Delhi, within their respective Union Territories.

• Deputy Ministers of the Union.

16. Officiating Chiefs of Staff holding the rank of Lieutenant-General or equivalent rank.

17. 

• Chairman, Minorities Commission.

• Chairman, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission.  

• Chairman, Union Public Service Commission.

• Chief ElectionCommissioner.

• Chief Justices of High Courts outside their respective jurisdictions.  

• Judges of High Courts within their respective jurisdictions.

18. 

• Cabinet Ministers in States outside their respective States.

• Chairmen and Speakers of State Legislatures outside their respective States.

• Chairman, Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission.  

• Deputy Chairman and Deputy Speakers of State Legislatures within their respective States.

• Ministers of States in States within their respective States.  

• Ministers of Union Territories and Executive Councillors, Delhi within their respective Union Territories.

• Speakers of Legislative Assemblies in Union Territories and Chairman of Delhi Metropolitan Council within their respective Union Territories.

19.

• Chief ‘Commissioners of Union Territories not having Councils of Ministers, within their respective Union Territory.

• Deputy Ministers in States within their respective States.

• Deputy Speakers of  Legislative Assemblies of Union Territories and

• Deputy Chairman of Metropolitan Council, Delhi, within their respective Union Territories.

20. 

• Deputy Chairmen and Deputy Speakers of’ State Legislatures outside their respective States.

• Ministers of State in States outside their respective States.

• Puisne Judges of High Courts outside their respective jurisdictions.

21. Members of Parliament.

22. Deputy Ministers in States outside their respective States.

23. 

• Army Commanders/Vice-Chief of the Army Staff or equivalent in other services.

• Chief Secretaries to State Governments within their respective States.

• Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities.

• Commissioner forScheduledCastesandScheduled Tribes.

• Members, Minorities Commission.

• Members, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission.

• Officers of the rank of full General or equivalent rank.

• Secretaries to the Government of India (including officers holding this office ex-officio).

• Secretary, Minorities Commission.

• Secretary, ScheduledCastesandSchedulodTribes Commission.

• Secretary to the President.

• Secretary to the Prime Minister.

• Secretary, Rajya Sabha/Lok Sabha.

• Solicitor-General.

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.

• Charged’ Affaires and Acting High Commissioners be-pied and adinterim.

• 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 Generals Border Security Force.

• Director General, Central Reserve Police.

• Director, Intelligence Bureau.

• Lieutenant Governors outside their respective Union Territories. 

• Members, Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission.

• Members, Union Public Service Commission.

• Ministers of Union Territories and Executive Councillor, Delhi, outside their respective Union Territories.

• Principal Staff 01Ticers 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.

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