| 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 |
- Chief Justice (Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud)
- Speaker of the Lok Sabha (Om Birla)
|
| 7 |
- Union cabinet ministers (Second Modi ministry)
- National Security Advisor (Ajit Doval)[4]
- Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister (Pramod Kumar Mishra)
- Vice Chairperson of NITI Aayog (Suman Bery)
- Former prime ministers (Manmohan Singh and H. D. Deve Gowda)
- Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha (Mallikarjun Kharge)
- Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha (Vacant since 2014)
- Chief ministers (within their respective states)
|
| 7A[5] |
- Recipients of the Bharat Ratna
|
| 8 |
- Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary and the high commissioners of Commonwealth countries accredited to India.
- Governors (when outside their respective states)
- Chief ministers (when outside their respective states)
|
| 9 |
Judges of the Supreme Court |
| 9A[5] |
- Chairperson of the Union Public Service Commission (Manoj Soni)[6]
- Chief Election Commissioner (Rajiv Kumar)
- Comptroller and Auditor General (Girish Chandra Murmu)
|
| 10 |
- Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha (Harivansh Narayan Singh)
- Deputy chief ministers
- Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha (vacant)
- Members of the NITI Aayog
- Union ministers of state (Second Modi ministry)
|
| 11 |
- Attorney General (R. Venkataramani)
- Cabinet Secretary (Rajiv Gauba)
- Principal Scientific Adviser (Ajay K. Sood)
- Lieutenants governors (within their respective union territories)
|
| 12 |
- Chiefs of Staff holding the rank of General or equivalent rank (Four-star rank officers in the armed forces)
- Chief of Defence Staff General (Anil Chauhan)
- Chief of the Army Staff General (Manoj Pande)
- Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal (Vivek Ram Chaudhari)
- Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral (Dinesh Kumar Tripathi)
|
| 13 |
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary accredited to India |
| 14 |
- Chief justices of high courts (within their respective jurisdictions)
- State legislative chairpersons and speakers (within their respective states)
|
| 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 |
- Chief justices of high courts (outside their respective jurisdictions)
- Chairperson of the Central Administrative Tribunal (Ranjit Vasantrao More)
- Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (Arun Kumar Mishra)
- Chairperson of the National Commission for Women (Rekha Sharma)
- Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (Priyank Kanoongo)
- Chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities (Iqbal Singh Lalpura)
- Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes[5] (Kishor Makwana)
- Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes[5] (Antar Singh Arya)
- Chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes[5] (Hansraj Gangaram Ahir)
- Additional judges of high courts (within their respective jurisdictions)
- Chief Vigilance Commissioner (as per Executive Order 1995)
|
| 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
-
- Members of Rajya Sabha
- Members of Lok Sabha
|
| 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
- Vice Chief of the Army Staff Lieutenant General (Upendra Dwivedi)
- Army commanders (General officers commanding-in-chief)
- Vice Chief of the Air Staff Air Marshal (Amar Preet Singh)
- Air commanders (Air officers commanding-in-chief)
- Vice Chief of the Naval Staff Vice Admiral (Krishna Swaminathan)
- Naval commanders (Flag officers commanding-in-chief)
- 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 |
- Three-star rank officers in the armed forces
- Lieutenant generals of the Indian Army
- Vice admirals of the Indian Navy
- Air marshals of the Indian Air Force
|
| 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 |
- Joint secretaries to the union government and officers of equivalent rank
- Officers of the rank of Major General or equivalent rank
|
