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]
|
6
|
|
7
|
|
7A[5]
|
|
8
|
|
9
|
Judges of the Supreme Court
|
9A[5]
|
|
10
|
|
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)
|
16
|
Officiating Chiefs of Staff holding the rank of Lieutenant General or equivalent rank (Three-star rank) officers in the armed forces
|
17
|
|
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)
|
19
|
- Union territory legislative deputy speakers
- Administrators (within their respective union territories)
- State deputy ministers (within their respective states)
|
20
|
- State legislative deputy chairpersons and deputy speakers (outside their respective states)
- State ministers of state (outside their respective state)
|
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)
|
24
|
|
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)
|
26
|
|