As many as 37 names are considered by the screening committee as FIT for the grant of NFU. The recommended names are:
- P. S. Chhina
- L. N. Pant
- Anup Kumar Jaiswal
- Pramod C. Mody
- Ajay Singh
- R K Kakkar
- M. C. Singhal
- Abhijit Chakravarty
- Meeta Nambiar
- PawanParmar Singh
- Hukam Chand Jain
- Neena Kumar
- Abha Anand Kishore
- Rajnish Kumar
- D. D. Goel
- Madhu Mahajan
- P. K. Dash
- K. Ramalingam
- Akhilesh Ranjan
- Tejender Singh
- Desh Bandhu Goel
- S S Narain
- Braj Kishore Singh
- Abhay Tayal
- A.C. Shukla
- A. K. Nigam
- S. C. Goyal
- G. E. MAheshwari
- Shreekant Chaterjee
- H. S. Soni
- Anand
- K K Tiwari
- Pushp Lata Srivastava
- A K Rupapati
- K C Ghumaria
- Boota Singh
- Ashutosh Chandra