The Surveyor General is also the most senior member of the Survey of India Service, an organised engineering service under the Union of India.
The current Surveyor General is Hitesh Kumar S Makwana.
The East India Company appointed James Rennell to survey the Bengal Presidency in 1767.
Lord Clive appointed him as Surveyor General.
Colin Mackenzie was appointed Surveyor General of Madras Presidency in 1810, but these posts were abolished in 1815 and Mackenzie was made the first Surveyor General of India.