New Delhi | The Centre has granted Indian envoy to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi the status equivalent to a Union cabinet minister, according to a government order.

An order issued on Wednesday by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said Trivedi "has been assigned the equivalent status of Union Cabinet Minister in the Table of Precedence (ToP) as a measure personal to him, without amending the Table of Precedence".

"The position in Table of Precedence is for ceremonial functions only," it said.

Former Union minister Trivedi was appointed as India's high commissioner to Bangladesh on April 27.