As many as 19 Section Heads have been promoted to the grade of Foreign Trade Development Officers (FTDO) in Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT). The officers include: M S Sureshbabu, Krishnadas C, Mrs  Elizabeth M Thomas, Mrs V N Chitale, Plato Lobo, P M Nambiar, Mrs V J Khetale, Arun Sonkusale, Mrs R Padmapriya, Dipankar Chakraorty, Ganeshwar Rao Nalla, Mohan Srinivasan, Tralokya Chandra Deka, Ms Sathya Kumari Sridhar, Mrs Meenu Sharma, Narayan Roy, Gautam Chatterjee, S Rajkumar and M Selvan.