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Joint Secretaries to the Government of India and officers of equivalent rank. Officers ofthe rank ofMajor-General or equivalent rank arm'txrr LTES {vgflly‘ 'E‘. 1.. 13912.1 The order in this Table of Precedence is meant for State and Ceremonial occasions and has no application in the day-to-day business ofGovernment. ‘ w-e<:‘-‘1;m17¥-'Jl'" Em; 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 i? 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 article are present at a function outside their States or Union Territories and there is difficulty in ascertaining their dates of entry, they may be assigned precedence inter se in the alphabetical order of the name of States and Union Territories concerned after those whose precedence is determined according to date of entry into that article. In Article 7, former Prime Ministers will take precedence over the Cabinet Ministers of the Union and the Leaders of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha. The Chief Ministers of States within their respective States will take precedence over the Cabinet Ministers ofthe Union in official functions held in the respective States. mg; In Article 8: — n4 +W‘flm\ (a) Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and High CommissiOners of Commonwealth countries accredited to India will en bloc rank above Governors of States outside their respective States; " 3 )L'immllmilm-x: .- . , L—q (b) (l) (2) (3) (4) (5) (a) (is) (Q (a) (b) (C) Page 4 of 5 . . . . . . a Governors of States outsrde their respective States wrll en bloc rank above Chief MlnlSLel'S ‘ of States outside their respective States. The Ministry of Extemal- Affairs may assign appropriate ranks to foreign dignitaries and Indian Ambassadors, High Commissioners and Ministers Plenipotentiary during their visit to India. Notwithstanding the procedure laid down in Note 2, the rank inter se and precedence of the persons in Article 10 shall be assigned in lite following order. - Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha. Deputy Speaker. Lok Sabha. Ministers of State of the Union and any other Minister in the Ministry of Defence for defence. matters. ' Deputy Chief Ministers of States. Members of Planning Commission. . However, the Deputy Chief Ministers of States outside their respective States will always rank below all other dignitaries figuring in this article. The Chairmen of State Legislative Councils will rank above the Speakers of Legislative Assemblies in cases where they were elected on the same date. When Members of Parliament are invited en bloc to major State functions, the enclosures reserved for them should be next to the Chief Justice, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Ambassadors etc. Speakers of Legislative Assemblies in Union Territories and Chairman of the Delhi Metropolitan Council, Delhi, will take precedence over Ministers and Executive Councillors, included in the same article. in Article 23: - Secretaries in the Ministry of External Affairs other than the Foreign Secretary, between themselves, will take precedence in the order of their seniority in Grade-I of the Indian Foreign Service and both of them will take precedenCe after the Foreign Secretary. Members of the Minorities Commission and the Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes Commission will always take precedence over the Secretaries of these Commissions; in official functions held at Delhi/New Delhi, Army Commanders/Vice Chief ofthe Army Staff or equivalent in other Services will alWays rank after Secretaries to the Government of India In Article 25: - Additional Secretaries in the Ministry of External Affairs, among themselves, will take precedence in the order of their seniority in Grade- II ofthe lndian Foreign Service; Additional Solicitor General will take precedence above the Advocate General of States; Lieutenant Governors will take precedence over the Chief Ministers and Chief Executive Councillor, Delhi, and the latter will take precedence over Speakers of Legislative Assemblies and Chairman, Metropolitan Council, Delhi; uni-mm. r . wow .-