Additional secretary to the Government of India

Union Additional Secretary
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Member ofCommittee of Secretaries on Administration
Reports to
Term length
Term extendable
Salary₹182,200 (US$2,200) (Minimum Pay) to ₹224,100 (US$2,700) (Maximum Pay)

Additional Secretary (often abbreviated as AS, GoI or Union Additional Secretary or Additional Secretary to Government of India) is a post and a rank under the Central Staffing Scheme of the Government of India.[1] The authority for creation of this post solely rests with Cabinet of India.[2]

Additional secretary is mostly a career civil servant,[3][4][5] generally from the Indian Administrative Service,[6] and is a government official of high seniority. The civil servants who hold this rank are either from All India Services (on deputation; on tenure, after empanelment) or Central Civil Services (Group A; on empanelment). All promotions and appointments to this rank and post are directly made by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.

In the functioning of Government of India, an additional secretary is the administrative head of a wing in a department.[7] Additional secretaries in the Union Government[8][9][10] is analogous to Principal staff officers (PSO) of the rank of Major general[11] and certain officers not PSOs, but in lieutenant general rank[12] in Indian Armed Forces. Additional secretaries rank 25th on Order of Precedence of India.[13][14][15][16]

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  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference 7 Pay Commission Report was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  6. ^ Dhingra, Sanya (16 October 2024). "Only 33% joint secretaries belong to IAS. How the service's dominance has eroded under Modi govt". ThePrint. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
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  9. ^ "Part XIV of the Constitution of India- Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits - Article 300" (PDF). Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  10. ^ "Part XIV of the Constitution of India- Services under the Union and the States - Article 312(2)" (PDF). Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  11. ^ Dutta, Sujjan (28 October 2017). "Govt 'clarifies', soldiers upset". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 28 October 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  12. ^ "Vice Admiral Atul Anand takes over as Additional Secretary, DMA". Ministry of Defence (India). Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  13. ^ "Order of Precedence" (PDF). Rajya Sabha. President's Secretariat. 26 July 1979. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2010. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  14. ^ "Table of Precedence" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. President's Secretariat. 26 July 1979. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 May 2014. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  15. ^ "Table of Precedence". Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. President's Secretariat. Archived from the original on 28 April 2014. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  16. ^ Maheshwari, S.R. (2000). Indian Administration (6th ed.). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan Private Ltd. ISBN 9788125019886.