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Organisation Chart ORGANISATION CHART * Minister of Commerce & Industry (Shri Piyush Goyal) Minister of State for Commerce & Industry (Independent Charge) (Shri Hardeep Singh Puri) Minister of State for Commerce & Industry (Shri Som Parkash) Commerce Secretary (Shri Anup Wadhawan) Special Special Secretary Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor Additional Secretary Secretary (Shri Sunil Kumar) (Shri Shashank Priya) (Shri Sudhanshu Pandey) (Shri N. Sivasailam) Logistics DGTR, Anti-Dumping and Subsidies, Board of Finance, Budget & Accounts, Trade Finance. Trade Policy Division including RMTR and UNCTAD, Safeguards, FT (ST), FT (M&O), Indian Institute of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Packaging (IIP), India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF) negotiations, EP (Services Export), Implementation of the and Appellate Committee under FT (D&R) Act. foreign Trade Policy Statement (2015-2020), FT (Australia and New Zealand), IIFT and Chairman EIC. Additional Additional Secretary Additional Secretary ADG(S) DG(DGFT) Principle Secretary Adviser (Shri Bidyut Behari (Shri Sanjay Chadha) Shri Bhupinder Singh Bhalla (Shri H. K. Sharma) (Shri Amit [Cost] Swain) Yadav) (Shri I.P. Singh) SEZ, EOU, SEZ FT (North East Asia), Infrastructure, ASIDE, FT (SA/SAARC/IRAN), EP (Engg.) Parliament and Legal Division: DGFT DGTR (Admin), ECGC, Exim State Cell, NE Cell, Mainstreaming States in including Export of Defence and High (Parliament, Nodal Officer for Bank, FT (CIS) and Trade, EP (OP). EP (ECS), Cyber Security Technology Products, GS 1. Addl. Monitoring of Court Cases), Hindi World Expo, 2020. and Hardware Security, ITPO, New Charge: CEO, IBEF. Division, Facilitation Counter, Work Convention Center Projects and FT (NAFTA Station, R&I, O&M, IWSU, CM&T and / AM).. RTI Cell. Joint Secretary Joint Secretary Joint Secretary (Shri Anant Swarup) Joint Secretary & CVO (Shri Dammu Ravi) (Shri Keshav Chandra) (Shri Shyamal Misra) Logistics, Social Media and Supply FT (LAC), EP Pharmaceuticals (1) TPD: State Trading Enterprises (STEs), Balance of Logistics, FT (Africa), FT (WANA), Division. (Pharmexil), CAPEXIL, SHEFEXIL, Payments (BoP), Government Procurement, Trade EP (Textiles). E-I, E-II, E-III, E-IV, CHEMEXCIL, PLEXCONCIL, Facilitation, Trade Policy Review, General Agreement on TA/TC, GA, Protocol and Admn. Administration of EP (CAP) and Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Interpretations, Customs of the DGTR including Trade Vigilance. Addl. Charge: FT Valuation, Import Licensing Procedures, WTO Defence Wing. (ASEAN) and ESCAP Accessions, Committee on Trade and Development (CTD); and Aid for Trade Initiatives, Small Economies and Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Trade and Transfer of Technology, Trade-Debt and Finance, Investment [including Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs)], Competition, Dispute Settlement, Rules, WTO matters relating to Safeguards, Matters related to G-20, OECD and World Economic Forum (2) RMTR: Committee on Regional Trade Agreements, GSP, BRICS and IBSA matters, RCEP negotiations, Matters related to TPP, TTIP, APEC and SEM. Joint Secretary Joint Secretary Joint Secretary DDG(S) Joint Secretary (Ms. Nidhi Mani Tripathi) ( Shri Arun Goel) (Shri Diwakar Nath Misra) Shri Rajender (Shri Darpan Jain) Kumar FT (Europe) including India – EU BTIA, e-Commerce, FT (North East Asia), Plantations, Export Logistics TPD (Services): Service EPC, India – EFTA Negotiations, EP (LSG), Infrastructure, States Inspection (EI&EP), EP (Agri), Bio-Technology, Division SPS, TBT, TRIPS, Enviornment Women Cell, ITPO, New Convention Cell, ASIDE, NE Cell, EP (MP) and National Steering Committee on and Labour, CRIT / Centre for Centre Projects, Trade Finance and Mainstreaming States Organic Products. Addl. Charge: Director, WTO Studies / CTIL / CRT, E- Public Grievances. E&MDA / MAI / FIEO in Trade, EP (OP), EP Export Inspection Council. Governance and RIS, (FIEO along with issues related to (ECS), Cyber Security Coordination and industry bodies, associations and and Hardware Security, Administration in TPD, Indian chambers are clubbed with E&MDA / Assist CEO (GeM) on Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), MAI / Division). Addl. Charge: Chief GeM related technical National Centre for Trade Executive Officer (CEO), PSFT. issues. Information (NCTI). Addl. Charge: FT (Coordination). Economic Adviser Economic Adviser Economic Adviser (Ms. Rupa Dutta) (Shri Praveen Mahto) (Shri Ajay Srivastava) Existing: IFD, EPL2. Additional work: EP (G&J) and TPD (Agri): Agriculture, WTO Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) and EPL-I. Work through RMTR / TPD: ASEM, IBSA Kimberley Process. Additional work through RMTR General Council, Ministerial Conference matters, WTO informal meetings, / TPD: Matters related to Commonwealth and IORA. including at (i) OECD (Paris) and (ii) World Economic Forum (Davos), Matters related to India’s Participation in WTO Public Forum, Inter- Parliamentary Union etc. Addl. Director Addl. Director Addl. Director Addl. DGFT Advisor (Cost) Advisor (Cost) General General General (Shri Ajay Kumar Srivastava) (Sh. R. C. Bhatt) (Sh. P. K. (Dr. Rajiv Arora) (Shri M. (Sh. Satish Upadhyay) Thakur) Kumar) DGTR DGTR DGTR (1) TPD (NAMA): Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA), Asia- DGTR DGTR Pacific Trade Agreements (APTA), Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi- Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), Matters related to G-20, United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD), Global System of Trade Preferences (GSTP), Agriculture- related issues in bilateral negotiations. (2) FT (Oceania) Division Director[Cost] Director(Cost) Director(Cost) Director(Cost) Director(FT) (Shri N.I. Chowdhury) (Shri A.K. Pal) (Shri G. Pradhan) (Shri Manish Goswami) (Smt. Rita Mahna) DGTR DGTR DGTR DGTR DGTR Director Director Director Director Director Director Director (Shri K. V. Nagi (Ms. Sonia Pant) (Dr. Ishita G. (Shri Sanjay Kumar (Ms. Indu C. Nair) (Shri Prakash (Dr. Surendra Reddy) Tripathy) Agrawal) Nevatia) Kumar Ahirwar) FT (LAC), EP (Pharma) On Leave TPD and FT (Oceania) FT (ASEAN) and MAI & MDA Schemes. Logistics and Vigilance.. ESCAP DGTR Director Director Director Director (Ms. Sangeeta Saxena) (Shri Devendra Singh Shri N.Ashok Kumar (Ms. Aashna Paul) Martolia) TPD and EP (Services). DGTR TPD (Agri), EP (Agricultural), EP (Export State Cell – TIES, Infrastructure, Mainstreaming States in Trade, EP Inspection) and Biotechnology. (OP), EP (ECS), Cyber Security and Hardware Security. Joint DGFT (Shri Abhimaniu Sharma ) TPD Joint Director Joint Director Joint Director (Smt. Urmila Harit) (Shri Praveen Kumar) Vacant Hindi Division FT (Africa) Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Secretary Deputy Deputy Deputy Secretary Secretary Secretar Secretary Secretary Secretary Secretary Secretary Secretary y (Shri Anurag (Shri S. K. (Ms. Geetha (Shri S.T. (Ms. Padma (Shri Sharma) (Shri Senthil (Shri Steephen (Shri Ravti Ranjan) Nair) Shri Venkatachalapat Ganesh) Amitabh Nathan S) L.) Saran Puru hy) Dwivedi) Verma) Gupta) FT (WANA). TPD, FT (Coord), Trade GA, Protocol, FT(SA/SAARC/Iran). World Expo, FT (NAFTA / AM) EP (Textiles) FT (CIS), EP (Engg.) CWTOS, Finance and Cash–I / Addl. Charge: SEZ, EOU, and EP (MP) ECGC, Exim NCTI and Public including Cash–II, E-II, Deputy CEO, IBEF. SEZ (Admin), Bank, IIFT. Grievances. Export of E-III, E-I, E-IV EP (G&J) and and TA/TC.. Kimberley CAPEXIL, Defence & Process. SHEFEXIL, High CHEMEXCIL, Technology PLEXCONCIL Products, GS- and 1, Women Cell Administratio and EP (LSG). n of EP (CAP). Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Deputy Secretary Deputy Deputy Secretary Deputy Deputy Secretary Secretary Secretary Secretary Secretary Secretary Secretary (Shri Vinod Kumar (Ms. Sadhna (Shri Anurag Ms. Durga (Ms. Singh) (Shri M. Hiranandani) Ms. Vartika Ms. Jyoti Yadav Sehgal) Sakthi Sudhanshu Jayachandran) Rawat Nagpal Ms. Manisha Bala Nanda) Meena TPD FT (NEA), ITPO Parliament and Nodal Plantation TPD (TF / FT (ST), Supply Division On Leave RMTR and New Officer for Monitoring Admin), RMTR – FT (M&O), Convention of Court Cases. II, FT (Europe), IIP and Centre Projects. India-EU BTIA IBEF and India EFTA TEPA Negotiations. .
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