Rank | Position |
1 | President (Droupadi Murmu) |
2 | Vice President (Jagdeep Dhankhar) |
3 | Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) |
4 | Governors (within their respective states) |
5 | Former presidents (Pratibha Patil and Ram Nath Kovind) |
5A | Deputy Prime Minister (vacant)[3] |
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7 | |
7A[5] | |
8 | |
9 | Judges of the Supreme Court |
9A[5] | |
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11 | |
12 | |
13 | Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary accredited to India |
14 | |
15 | - Union deputy ministers
- Union territory chief ministers (within their respective union territories)
- State cabinet ministers (within their respective states)
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16 | Officiating Chiefs of Staff holding the rank of Lieutenant General or equivalent rank (Three-star rank) officers in the armed forces |
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18 | - State cabinet ministers (outside their respective states)
- State legislative chairpersons and speakers (outside their respective states)
- Chairperson of the Competition Commission of India
- Union territoriy legislative speakers
- State legislative deputy chairpersons and deputy speakers (within their respective states)
- State ministers of state (within their respective states)
- Union territory ministers (within their respective union territories)
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19 | - Union territory legislative deputy speakers
- Administrators (within their respective union territories)
- State deputy ministers (within their respective states)
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20 | - State legislative deputy chairpersons and deputy speakers (outside their respective states)
- State ministers of state (outside their respective state)
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21 | Members of Parliament |
22 | State deputy ministers (outside their respective states) |
23 | - Senior Three-star rank officers in the armed forces who are in the C-in-C (Commanding-in-Chief) grade or Vice Chiefs of staff, holding the rank of Lieutenant General or equivalent rank
- Secretaries to the union government
- Commissioner for Human Rights
- Commissioner for Women
- Commissioner for Child Rights
- Commissioner for Minorities
- Commissioner for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
- Commissioner for Backward Classes
- Members of the National Human Rights Commission
- Members of the National Commission for Women
- Members of the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights
- Members of the National Commission for Minorities
- Members of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
- Members of the National Commission for Backward Classes
- Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission
- Secretary of the National Commission for Women
- Secretary of the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights
- Secretary of the Minorities Commission
- Secretary of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission
- Secretary of the Backward Classes
- Secretary to the President (Rajesh Verma)
- Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha (Pramod Chandra Mody)
- Secretary General of the Lok Sabha (Utpal Kumar Singh)
- Solicitor General (Tushar Mehta)
- Vice Chairperson of the Central Administrative Tribunal
- Chief secretaries to state/union territory governments (within their respective states)
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25 | - Lieutenants governor (outside their respective union territories)
- Union territory chief ministers (outside their respective union territories)
- Union territory legislative speakers (outside their respective union territories)
- Chief secretaries (outside their respective states)
- Directors General of Police (DGPs) of various State police forces, Directors General (DGs) of Central Armed Police Forces (AR, BSF, CISF, CRPF, ITBP, NSG, and SSB)
- DGs and Directors of various forces and organizations under central government (like NDRF, AAIB, NCRB, BPRD etc.)
- Directors of various Security and investigative agencies (like ED, CBI, NIA, NCB etc.)
- Additional secretaries to the union government
- Two-star rank principal staff officers of the armed forces of the rank of Major General or equivalent rank (i.e. Rear Admiral and Air Vice Marshal)
- Advocates general
- Additional solicitors general
- Chairperson of the Tariff Commission
- Chargé d' affaires and acting high commissioners a pied and ad. interim.
- Deputy comptrollers and auditors general
- Union territory legislative deputy speakers
- Director of the Intelligence Bureau (Tapan Deka)
- Members of the Central Administrative Tribunal
- Members of the Competition Commission of India.
- Members of the Union Public Service Commission and State Public Service Commissions.[7]
- Union territory ministers (outside their respective union territories)
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