Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India The Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (PS to the PM; IAST: ) is the senior-most bureaucrat in, and the administrative head of, the Prime Minister's Office. The officeholder is generally a civil servant, commonly from the Indian Administrative Service and occasionally from the Indian Foreign Service. The post is considered one of the most influential in the Indian civil services, and some principal secretaries are considered more powerful and influential than senior government ministers. The Prime Minister's Secretariat (PMS)—headed by an officer of the rank of joint secretary to
Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service expected standards to help staff understand their role as international civil servants rather than a set of binding rules." The 2013 edition of the Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service were drafted under the guidance of Kingston Papie Rhodes, chairman of the ICSC, and approved by the UN General Assembly in its resolution 67/257. Rhodes wrote in his foreword to the 2013 standards: The UN Staff Regulations of 1 January 2014, in Article 100, state: Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service The document Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service is a text document of