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1 AADCP ASEAN Australia Development Cooperation
2 AADCP ASEAN Aquaculture Development and Coordinating Programme
3 AADCP-RPS ASEAN-Australia Development Cooperation Programme Regional Partnership Scheme
4 AAECP ASEAN-Australia Economic Cooperation Programme
5 AAF ASEAN Automotive Federation
6 AAFI Amateur Athletics Federation of India
7 AAM ASEAN Airlines Meeting
8 AAP Aam Aadmi Party
9 AAPSIP ASEAN-Australia Postharvest System Improvement Programme
10 AAPSO Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organisation
11 AARNET ASEAN-AVRDC Regional Network for Vegetable Research and Development
12 AASROC Asian-African Sub-Regional Organizations Conference
13 AASU All Assam Students Union
14 ABAC ASEAN Business Advisory Council
15 ABAPAST Advisory Body on ASEAN Plan of Action on Science and Technology
16 ABASF Advisory Body of the ASEAN Science Fund
17 ABF ASEAN Business Forum
18 ABM Anti Ballistic Missile
19 ABVP Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
20 AC Alternate Current; Air Conditioner
21 AC Ashoka Chakra
22 ACBC ASEAN-China Business Council
23 ACBC AFTA-CER Business Council
24 ACC Ancillary Cadet Core
25 ACCICG AFTA-CER CEP Implementation and Coordination Group
26 ACCORD ASEAN and China Cooperative Operations in Response to Dangerous Drugs
27 ACCSM ASEAN Conference on Civil Service Matters
28 ACCSQ ASEAN Consultative Committee for Standards and Quality
29 ACCTC ASEAN Coordinators of Customs Training Centre
30 ACDM ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management
ABBREVIATIONS
30 ACDM ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management
31 ACE ASEAN Centre for Energy
32 ACE ASEAN Committee on Education
33 ACECA ASEAN-Canada Economic Cooperation Agreement
34 ACEDAC ASEAN Centre for the Development of Agricultural Cooperatives
35 ACF ASEAN Cultural Fund
36 ACF Auto-Correlation Function
37 ACFTA ASEAN-China Free Trade Area
38 ACJCC ASEAN-China Joint Cooperation Committee
39 ACP Annual Credit Plan
40 ACP ASEAN Cooperation Plan
41 ACSOC ASEAN-China Senior Officials Consultation
42 ACTC ASEAN Center for Combating Transnational Crime
43 ACTD ASEAN Common Technical Dossiers
44 ACTRs ASEAN Common Technical Requirements
45 ACTS ASEAN Cargo Transport Study
46 ACTT ASEAN Communication Team for Tourism
47 ACU Asian Currency Union
48 ACW ASEAN Committee on Women
49 ACWGDC ASEAN-China Working Group on Development Cooperation
50 AQGs Air Quality Guidelines (WHO)
51 AD Ano Domini (After the birth of Jesus)
52 AD Authorized Dealer
53 ADB ASEAN Development Bank
54 ADC Aide-de-Camp; Access Deficit Charge
55 ADCF ASEAN Development Cooperation Forum
56 ADCG ASEAN Datacom Coordinating Group
57 ADF Asian Development Fund
58 ADFCs Agriculture Development Finance Companies
59 ADGICM ASEAN Directors-General of Immigration Departments and Consular Affairs Division
60 ADHD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
61 ADI Acceptable Daily Intake
62 ADPC ASEAN Agriculture Development Planning Centre
63 ADPC ASIAN Disaster Preparedness Centre
64 ADR American Depository Receipt; Association for Democratic Reforms
65 ADS Area Development Scheme
66 ADS Air Defence Ship
67 AEBF ASEAN Energy Business Forum
68 AEC ASEAN Economic Community
69 AEEAP ASEAN Environmental Education Action Plan
70 AEEMTRC ASEAN-EC Energy Management Training and Research Centre
71 AEG ASEAN Experts Group
72 AEGCD ASEAN Expert Group on Communicable Diseases
73 AEGDM ASEAN Expert Group on Disaster Management
74 AEGFS Adhoc Expert Group on Food Safety
75 AEGM ASEAN Experts Group on Minerals
76 AEIC ASEAN Earthquake Information Centre
77 AEI American Enterprise Institute
78 AEM ASEAN Economic Ministers' Meeting
79 AEMC ASEAN-European Community Management Centre
80 AEMEC ASEAN Economic Ministers on Energy Cooperation
81 AEMM ASEAN-European Union Ministerial Meeting
82 AENRIC ASEAN Environmental and Natural Resources Information Centre
83 AEP ASEAN Environmental Partnership
84 AERE Atomic Energy Research Establishment
85 AERISRP ASEAN Plus Three Emerging and Resurging Infections Surveillance and Response Programme
86 AERR ASEAN Emergency Rice Reserve
87 AEY ASEAN Environment Year
88 AF ASEAN Foundation
89 AFAS ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services
90 AFC Agricultural Finance Corporation90 AFC Agricultural Finance Corporation
91 AFC ASEAN Food Conference
92 AFDM ASEAN Finance and Central Bank Deputies
93 AFDM-WG ASEAN Finance and Central Bank Deputies Working Group
94 AFEEC ASEAN Forum on Energy and Efficiency and Conservation
95 AFF ASEAN Fisheries Federation
96 AFFA ASEAN Federation of Forwarders Association
97 AFHB ASEAN Food Handling Bureau
98 AFIS Automatic Finger Print Identification System
99 AFMA ASEAN Federation of Mining Associations
100 AFMM ASEAN Finance Ministers Meeting
101 AFOC ASEAN Forum on Coal
102 AFPHTC ASEAN Fisheries Postharvest Technology Centres
103 AFPIC ASEAN Forest Product Industry Club
104 AFS Available For Sale
105 AFS Annual Financial Statement
106 AFSIS ASEAN Food Security Information System
107 AFSPA Armed Forces Special Powers Act
108 AFSRB ASEAN Food Security Reserve Board
109 AFTA ASEAN Free Trade Area
110 AFTEX ASEAN Federation of Textile Industries
111 AG Accountant General; Adjutant General
112 AGBEP ASEAN Business/Economic Graduate Programme
113 AGM Annual General Meeting
114 AGMU Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories
115 AGOC Asian Games Organisation Committee
116 AGS All Generations’ Stock
117 AHEWS ASEAN Agricultural Hazards Early Warning System
118 AHIA ASEAN Heads of Investment Agencies
119 AHMM ASEAN Health Ministers Meeting
120 AHPISA Animal Health and Production Information System in ASEAN
121 AHPR ASEAN Declaration on Heritage Parks and Reserves
122 AHRN Asian Harm Reduction Network
123 AHSOM ASEAN Heads of Statistical Offices Meeting
124 AHTN ASEAN Harmonised Tariff Nomenclature
125 AHTUs Anti-Human Trafficking Units
126 AI Amnesty International
127 AI Air India
128 AIA ASEAN Investment Area
129 AIADMK All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
130 AIBC ASEAN-India Business Council
131 AIC ASEAN Insurance Commisioner
132 AICC All India Christian Council
133 AICC All India Congress Committee
134 AICMEU All India Council for Muslim Economic Upliftment
135 AICO ASEAN Industrial Cooperation Scheme
136 AICTE All India Council for Technical Education
137 AICTE All India Council of Technical Education
138 AIDA ASEAN-India Digital Archive Project
139 AIDAB Australian International Development Assistance Board
140 AIDS Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome
141 AIELTF ASEAN-India Economic Linkage Task force
142 AIF Area Improvement Funds
143 AIFE All India Football Federation
144 AIFM ASEAN Institute Forest Management
145 AIFOCOM ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Organization Fact Finding Committee to Combat the Drug Menace
146 AII ASEAN Information Infrastructure
147 AIIMS All India Institute of Medical Sciences
148 AIJSCC ASEAN-India joint Sectoral Cooperation Committee
149 AIJV ASEAN Industrial Joint Venture
150 AIL Aeronautics India Limited
151 AIM Additional Interest Margin151 AIM Additional Interest Margin
152 AIMMM All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat
153 AIMMP Area Intensive & Madarsa Modernization Programme
154 AIMPLB All India Muslim Personal Law Board
155 AIMS ASEAN Interconnection Masterplan Study
156 AINNI All India Network of NGOs and Individuals
157 AIPA ASEAN Intellectual Property Association
158 AIPO ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Organization
159 AIR ASEAN Investment Report
160 AIR All India Radio (Broadcasting); Annual Information Report
161 AIR Annals of Improbable Research
162 AIR Annual Information Return
163 AIRCSC All India Rural Credit Survey Committee
164 AIRM ASEAN Insurance Regulators Meeting
165 AIT ASEAN Institute of Technology
166 AITRI ASEAN Insurance Regulators Meeting
167 AITUC All India Trade Union Congress
168 AITUE All India Trade Union Congress
169 AIU Association of Indian Universities
170 AJCCEP ASEAN-Japan Committee on Comprehensive Economic Partnership
171 AJCEP ASEAN-Japan Closer Economic Partnership
172 AJCEPEG ASEAN-Japan Closer Economic Partnership Expert Group
173 AJCGM ASEAN-Japan Consultative Group Meeting
174 AJDF ASEAN-Japan Development Fund
175 AJSTD ASEAN Journal for Science and Technology Development
176 AJT Advanced Jet Trainer
177 AJUT ASEAN-Japan Urban Transportation
178 AKECOP ASEAN-Korea Environment Cooperation
179 AL Awami League
180 ALA Alpha-Linolenic Acid
181 ALH Advanced Light Helicopter
182 ALIA ASEAN Legal Information Authority
183 ALM Asset Liability Management
184 ALMM ASEAN Labour Ministers Meeting
185 AM Anti Meridian (Before Noon)
186 AMA Agriculture Marketing Adviser
187 AMA Assessment and Monitoring Authority
188 AMAF ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry
189 AMASR Ancient Monuments and Archeological Sites and Remains
190 AMBDC ASEAN Mekong Basin Development Cooperation
191 AMC Australian Managing Contractor
192 AMC Agricultural Marketing Committees
193 AMC Army Medical Corps; Asset Management Companies
194 AMCA ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Culture and Arts
195 AMCs ASEAN Member Countries
196 AMD Age-related Macular Degeneration
197 AMEICC AEM-MITI Economic and Industrial Cooperation committee
198 AMEM ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting
199 AMG Alliance for Mutual Growth
200 AMIE Associate Member of the Institute of Engineers
201 AML/CFT Anti-Money Laundering/Combating (or Countering) Financing of Terrorism
202 AMM ASEAN Ministerial Meeting
203 AMME ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the Environment
204 AMMH ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Haze
205 AMMST ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology
206 AMMTC ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime
207 AMO ASEAN Macroeconomic Outlook
208 AMRDPE ASEAN Ministers on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication
209 AMRI ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information
210 AMRI-TWC ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information Technical Working Group
211 AMRSW ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Social Welfare
212 AMSAT Australian Marince Science and Technology Pty. Limited212 AMSAT Australian Marince Science and Technology Pty. Limited
213 AMST ASEAN Ministers for Science and Technology
214 AMT Alternative Minimum Tax
215 AMU Aligarh Muslim University
216 ANC African National Congress
217 ANC Ante Natal Care
218 ANDIN ASEAN Newsletter on Disaster Management Information Network
219 ANEX ASEAN News Exchange
220 ANM Auxiliary Nurse Midwife
221 ANP Awami National Party
222 ANWRA ASEAN Network of Water Resource Agencies
223 ANZCERTA Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement
224 ANZECP ASEAN-New Zealand Economic Co-operation Programme
225 ANZJMC ASEAN-New Zealand Joint Management Committee
226 AO Additive Outliers
227 AONBS Asia-Oceania Network on Biological Science
228 AP Andhra Pradesh
229 APA Advance Pricing Agreement
230 APAA ASEAN Port Authorities Association
231 APAEC ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation
232 APBSD ASEAN Policy Blueprint for SME Development
233 APC Agricultural Prices Commission
234 APCASO Asia Pacific Council on AIDS Service Organization
235 APCS ASEAN Promotional Centre on Information, Culture and Tourism in Seoul
236 APCTs ASEAN Promotional Chapters for Tourism
237 APCTT Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology
238 APDRTC ASEAN Poultry Disease Research and Training Center
239 APEC Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation
240 APERC Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre
241 APG Asia Pacific Group
242 APHCN ASEAN Plant Helath Cooperation Network
243 API Annual Parasite Incidence
244 APJSCC ASEAN-Pakistan Joint Sectoral Cooperation Committee
245 APL Above Poverty Line
246 APMA All Pakistan Minorities Alliance
247 APPLE Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment
248 APPU Asian Pacific Postal Union
249 APRC All Party Representative Committee
250 APRIS ASEAN Project for Regional Integration Support
251 APRTC ASEAN Poultry Research and Training Centre
252 APSC Army Postal Services Core
253 AR Auto Regression
254 ARC ASEAN Research Centre
255 ARC Asset Reconstruction Company
256 ARCBC ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation
257 ARCSTC ASEAN-Russia Commission on Scientific and Technological Cooperation
258 ARDCMR ASEAN Regional Development Centre for Mineral Resources
259 ARDR Agricultural and Rural Debt Relief
260 ARF ASEAN Regional Forum
261 ARF ISM CT TC ASEAN Regional Forum Inter-Sessional Meeting on Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime
262 ARI Acute Respiratory Infection
263 ARIMA Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average
264 ARISPA ASEAN ISP Association
265 ARIX ASEAN Regional Internet Exchange
266 ARPDM ASEAN Regional Programme in Disaster Management
267 ART Anti-Retroviral Treatments
268 ARTS Advancement of Rural Technology Scheme
269 ARWGTEC ASEAN Russia Working Group on Trade, Economic Cooperation
270 ARYDEC ASEAN Rural Youth Development Centre
271 AS Accounting Standards
272 ASAP AIDS Society of Asia Pacific
273 ASAP ASEAN Services Access Platform273 ASAP ASEAN Services Access Platform
274 ASAT Anti-Satellite Weapon
275 ASC ASEAN Security Community
276 ASC ASEAN Standing Committee
277 ASC Army Service Corps
278 ASCB All Scheduled Commercial Bank
279 ASCC ASEAN Socio-cultural Community
280 ASCHN ASEAN Sub-Committee on Health and Nutrition
281 ASCI Advanced Strategic Computing Initiative
282 ASCII American Standard Code for Information
283 ASCLA ASEAN Sub-Committee on Labour Affairs
284 ASCOE ASEAN Sub-Committee on Education
285 ASCOPE ASEAN Council on Petroleum
286 ASCU ASEAN Surveillance Coordinating Unit
287 ASDR Age Specific Death Rate
288 ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nations
289 ASEANCCI ASEAN Chambers of Commerce and Industry
290 ASEANTA ASEAN Tourism Association
291 ASEM ASEAN Europe Meeting
292 ASEM Asia-Europe Meeting
293 ASEP ASEAN Subregional Environment Programme
294 ASER Annual Status Education Report
295 ASF ASEAN Science Fund
296 ASFOM ASEAN Senior Finance Officials Meeting
297 ASFR Age-Specific Fertility Rate
298 ASHA Accredited Social Health Activist; Alliance for Sustainable Holistic Agriculture
299 ASI Archaeological Survey of India; Army Sports Institute
300 ASIMO Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility
301 ASIS Australian Secret Intelligence Service
302 ASITF ASEAN Shrimp Industry Task Force
303 ASLOM ASEAN Senior Labour Officials Meeting
304 ASLOM ASEAN Senior Law Officials Meeting
305 ASLV Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle
306 ASMA Antarctica Specially Managed Area
307 ASMC ASEAN Specialized Meteorological Centre
308 ASNEM ASEAN Network for Environment Management
309 ASNET-RESED ASEAN Network for Rapid Exchange of Strong Earthquake Data
310 ASOD ASEAN Senior Officials on Drugs
311 ASOEN ASEAN Senior Officials on the Environment
312 ASOF ASEAN Senior Officials on Forestry
313 ASOMM ASEAN Senior Official Meeting on Minerals
314 ASP ASEAN Surveillance Process
315 ASP-5 ASEAN Sub-Regional Programme for the Fifth Cycle
316 ASPEN ASEAN Strategic Plan of Action on the Environment
317 ASQP ASEAN Standards and Quality Programme
318 ASSOCHAM Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (India)
319 ASTICK ASEAN Science and Technology Community for Innovation, Competitiveness and Knowledge
320 ASTNET ASEAN Science and Technology Information Network
321 ASTU ASEAN Surveillance Technical Support Unit
322 ASTW ASEAN Science and Technology Week
323 ASW ASEAN Sub-Committee on Women
324 ASWAC Airborne Surveillance Warning and Control
325 ASWGFi ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Fisheries
326 ASWGL ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Livestock
327 ASY ASEAN Sub-Committee on Youth
328 ATA Air Time Authority; Allen Telescope Array
329 ATC ASEAN Traffic Control
330 ATC Air Traffic Controller
331 ATF ASEAN Tourism Forum
332 ATFOA ASEAN Task Force on AIDS
333 ATFSSN ASEAN Task Force on Social Safety Net
334 ATIC ASEAN Tourism Information Centre334 ATIC ASEAN Tourism Information Centre
335 ATM ASEAN Transport Ministers
336 ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
337 ATM Automatic Teller Machine
338 ATR Action Taken Report
339 ATRC ASEAN Telecommunication Regulators' Council
340 ATS Amphetamine-Type Stimulants (Drug)
341 ATS Anti Tetanus Serum
342 ATTC ASEAN Timber Technology Centre
343 ATTEN ASEAN Tourism Training and Education Network
344 ATV Automatic Transfer Vehicle
345 AUDF Assam United Democratic Front
346 AUM Assets Under Management
347 AUN ASEAN University Network
348 AUN BOT ASEAN University Network Board of Trustee
349 AUNILO ASEAN University Network Inter-Library Online
350 AUNP ASEAN-EU University Network Programme
351 AUNQUANET ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance Network
352 AUSAID Australian Agency for International Development
353 AVC Army Veterinary Corps
354 AVDRC ASEAN Vegetable Development and Research Center
355 AVIST ASEAN Virtual Institute of Science and Technology
356 AVM Additional Volatility Margin; Arteriovenous Malformation
357 AVOC ASEAN Vegetable Oils Club
358 AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System
359 AWCs Anganwadi Centers
360 AWGASME ASEAN Working Group on ASEAN Seas and Marine Environment
361 AWGATE ASEAN Working Group on Agriculture and Training Extention
362 AWGCM ASEAN Working Group on Custom Matters
363 AWGCME ASEAN Working Group on Coastal and Marine Environment
364 AWGEE ASEAN Working Group on Environmental Economics
365 AWGEIPAE ASEAN Working Group on Environmental Information, Public Awareness and Education
366 AWGEM ASEAN Working Group on Environment Management
367 AWGMEA ASEAN Working Group on Multilateral Environment Agreement
368 AWGNC ASEAN Working Group on Nature Conservation
369 AWGNCB ASEAN Working Group on Nature Conservation and Biodiversity
370 AWGTCP ASEAN Working Group on Technical Cooperation in Pharmaceuticals
371 AWGTM ASEAN Working Group on Tax Matters
372 AWGTP ASEAN Working Group on Transboundary Pollution
373 AWP ASEAN Women's Programme
374 AWPII ASEAN Work Programme on HIV/AIDS II
375 AWW Anganwadi Worker
376 AYDM ASEAN Youth Day Meeting
377 AYUSH Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Sidhha and Homeopathy
378 B Pharma Bachelor of Pharmacy
379 BAAIC Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Complementation
380 BADP Border Area Development Programme
381 BAMS Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery
382 BANBEIS Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics
383 BAPU Bhabna Association for People’s Upliftment
384 BARC Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
385 BBC Brand-to-Brand Complementation
386 BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
387 BC Before Christ (Before the birth of Jesus); Board of Control; British Columbia; Battery Commander
388 BC Pact Bandaranaike–Chelvanayakam Pact
389 BCBS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
390 BCC Behaviour Change Communication
391 BCCI Board of Control for Cricket in India
392 BCD Basic Customs Duty
393 BCG Bacillus Calmette Guerin—Anti-Tuberculosis Vaccine
394 BCJ Builders-Carpentry and Joineries
395 BCS Bangladesh Civil Service395 BCS Bangladesh Civil Service
396 BDCA Border Defence Cooperation Agreement
397 BDS Bachelor of Dental Surgery
398 BEL Bharat Electronics Limited
399 BENELUX Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg
400 BFA Bilateral Payment Arrangement
401 BHEL Bharat Heavy Electronics Limited
402 BICP Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices
403 BIFR Board of Industrial Finance and Reconstruction (Formerly Industrial Reconstruction Finance Board)
404 BIMP-EAGA Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malysia-Philippines Aast ASEAN Growth Area
405 BIMSTEC Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand Economic Cooperation
406 BIOS Basic Input Output System
407 BIS Bureau of Indian Standards
408 BIS Bank for International Settlements
409 BISS Biodiversity Information Sharing System
410 BJP Bharatiya Janata Party
411 BJYM Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha
412 BKU Bharatiya Kisan Union
413 BLO Booth Level Officer
414 BMCs Biodiversity Management Committees
415 BMD Ballistic Missile Defence System
416 BMI Body Mass Index
417 BNP Bangladesh Nationalist Party
418 BoD Burden of Disease
419 BOI Bureau of Immigration; Bank of India
420 BOLT BSE On-Line Trading (System)
421 BoP Balance of Payments
422 BOSS Bharat Operating System Solutions
423 BOT Build Operate Transfer
424 BPL Below Poverty Line
425 BPLR Benchmark Prime Lending Rate
426 BPM5 Balance of Payments Manual, 5th edition
427 BPO Business Process Outsourcing
428 BPR Bottom Pressure Records
429 BPR&D Bureau of Police Research and Development
430 BPSD Balance of Payments Division, DESACS, RBI
431 BREAD Basic Research, Education And Development
432 BRGF Backward Regions Grant Fund
433 BRIC Brazil, Rusia, India and China
434 BRO Border Road Organisation
435 BRT Bus Rapid Transit
436 BSA Bilateral Swap Agreements
437 BSACS Bihar State AIDS Control Society
438 BSCS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
439 BSE Bombay Stock Exchange
440 BSF Border Security Force
441 BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd
442 BSR Basic Statistical Returns
443 BSS Bharat Sevak Samaj
444 BSS Behavior Surveillance Survey
445 BSS Behaviour Sentinel Surveys
446 BSSMU Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University
447 BSUP Basic Services to the Urban Poor
448 BTAD Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts
449 BTS Buddhist Theosophical Society
450 BUET Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
451 BWC Bashirhat Family Planning Welfare Centre
452 C & AG Comptroller & Auditor General
453 C&I Criteria and Indicators
454 CA Chartered Accountant
455 CAAS China Academy of Agricultural Sciences
456 CABE Central Advisory Board Education456 CABE Central Advisory Board Education
457 CABE Central Advisory Board of Education
458 CAD Coronary Artery Disease
459 CAD Command Area Development
460 CAD Capital Account Deficit
461 CFAR Centre for Advocacy and Research
462 CAG Comptroller and Auditor General of India
463 CAIR Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
464 CAIT Computer-Assisted Investigation Tool
465 CAMMY China-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Youth
466 CAPART Council for People’s Action and Advancement of Rural Technology
467 CAPES Computer-Aided Paperless Examination System
468 CAR Capital Adequacy Ratio
469 CARA Child Adoption Resource Agency
470 CARAM Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility
471 CARD Centre for ASEAN Agriculture Research and Development Database
472 CARE Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere
473 CAS Centers of Advance Studies
474 CAS Chief of Army Staff; Chief of Air Staff; Conditional Access System
475 CASE Commission for Alternative Sources of Energy
476 CAT Convention Against Torture; Central Administrative Tribunal
477 CAT Common Admission Test
478 CATC Civil Aviation Training Centre
479 CAW Crime Against Women
480 CB Citizen Band (Radio)
481 CBDT Central Board of Direct Taxes
482 CBEC Central Board of Excise and Customs
483 CBFC Central Board of Film Certification
484 CBHI Central Bureau of Health Intelligence
485 CBI Central Bureau of Investigation
486 CBN Central Bureau of Narcotics
487 CBO Community Based Organization
488 CBR Crude Birth Rate
489 CBR Chemical, Biological, Radiological (Weapons)
490 CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (incidents)
491 CBS Core Banking Solution
492 CBS Consolidated Banking Statistics
493 CBSE Central Board of Secondary Education
494 CC Cash Credit
495 CCCA Coordinating Committee on the Implementation of the CEPT for AFTA
496 CCU Critical Care Unit
497 CCDB Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh
498 CCDUs Communication and Capacity Development Units
499 CCEA Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
500 CCEC Coordinating Committee on Electronic Commerce
501 CCFAC Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants
502 CCFICS Codex Committee on Food Import and Export
503 CCFL Codex Committee on Food Labeling
504 CCFO Codex Committee on Fats and Oils
505 CCGP Codex Committee on General Principle
506 CCH Central Council of Homeopathy
507 CCI Chamber of Commerce and Industry
508 CCI Coordinating Committee on Investment; Competition Commission of India
509 CCIM Central Council of Indian Medicine
510 CCPA Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs
511 CCPC Central Consumer Protection Council
512 CCR Counterfeit Currency Report
513 CCS Coordinating Committe on Services
514 CCS Cabinet Committee on Security
515 CCTNS Crime & Criminal Tracking Network & System
516 CD Certificate of Deposit
517 CD Conference on Disarmament517 CD Conference on Disarmament
518 CD Communicable Disease
519 C-DAC Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
520 CDBS Committee of Direction on Banking Statistics
521 CDC Cooper Development Center
522 CDM Clean Development Mechanism
523 CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
524 CDR Crude Death Rate
525 CD Ratio Credit Deposit Ratio
526 CDRs Call Detail Records
527 CDRI Central Drug Research Institute
528 CDS Credit Default Swaps
529 CDSCO Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation
530 CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
531 CECA Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement
532 CED Chronic Energy Deficiency; Change in External Debt
533 CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Woman
534 CEDT Center for Electronic Design and Technology
535 CEIB Central Economic Intelligence Bureau
536 CEO Chief Executive Officer
537 CEP Closer Economic partnership
538 CEPT Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme
539 CER Closer Economic Relations; Certified Emisions Reductions
540 CERD Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
541 CERN European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Pronounced CERN in French)
542 CERPA Centre for Research, Planning and Action
543 CERTs Computer Emergency Response Teams
544 CES Coverage Evaluation Report
545 CET Common Entrance Test
546 CF Company Finance
547 CFC Chloro Fluro Carbon
548 CFRA Combined Finance and Revenue Accounts
549 CFS Container Freight Station
550 CGA Controller General of Accounts
551 CGDA Controller General of Defence Accounts
552 CGF Current Generation Flow
553 CGHS Central Government Health Services
554 CGM Consultative Group Meetings
555 CGRA Currency and Gold Revaluation Account
556 CGS Current Generation Stock
557 CHC Community Health Centre
558 CHD Coronary Heart Disease
559 CHESS Commonwealth Higher Education Support Scheme
560 CHOGM Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
561 CHT Chittagong Hill Tracts
562 CHW Community Health Worker
563 CIA Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.A.)
564 CIAs Community Initiative Activities
565 CIB Central Information Branch
566 CIBIL Credit Information Bureau (India) Ltd
567 CIC Chief Information Commissioner
568 CICs Core Investment Companies
569 CID Criminal Investigation Department
570 CIDA Canadian International Development Agency
571 CIDR Central ID Data Repository
572 CIEL Centre for Investment Education and learning
573 cif cost, insurance and freight
574 CII Confederation of Indian Industries
575 C-in-C Commander-in-Chief
576 CIMA Centre of International Modern Art
577 CIR Crude Incidence Rate
578 CIRM Central Industrial Relations Machinery578 CIRM Central Industrial Relations Machinery
579 CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
580 CISF Central Industrial Security Force
581 CITES Convention on International Trade Endangered Species (of Wild Fauna and Flora )
582 CITU Centre of Indian Trade Unions
583 CLAAS Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement
584 CLASS Computer Literacy and Studies in Schools
585 CLAT Common Law Admission Test (Started May 2008)
586 CLAWS Centre for Land Warfare Studies
587 CLIs Composite Leading Indicators
588 CLM Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar
589 CLMV Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam
590 CLP lassification, Labeling and Packaging
591 CLS Central Labour Service
592 CLW Community Level Worker
593 CM Command Module; Chief Minister
594 CMD Chief Managing Director
595 CMI Chiang Mai Inisiative
596 CMP Common Minimum Programme
597 CMS Compact Muon Solenoid
598 CNA Community Needs Assessment
599 CNC Computed Numerically Controlled
600 CNG Compressed Natural Gas
601 CNN Cable News Network
602 CNS Chief of the Naval Staff
603 CNS/ATM Communication, Navigation and Surveillance/Air Traffic Management
604 CO Capital Outlay
605 CO Commanding Officer
606 COCI Committee on Culture and Information
607 COD Central Ordnance Depot; Cash on Delivery
608 COE Certificate of eligibiltiy
609 COFAB Committee on Finance and banking
610 COFAF Committee on Food, Agriculture and Forestry
611 COFEPOSA Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Act
612 COIME Committee on Industry, Minerals and Energy
613 COIN Customs Overseas Investigation Network
614 COP Conference of Parties
615 CoR Certificate of Registration
616 COSD Committee on Social and Development
617 COST Committee on Science and Technology
618 COTAC Committee on Transportation and Communication
619 COTT Committee on Trade and Tourism
620 CP Commercial Paper
621 CPC Central Processing Centre
622 CPCs Countries of Particular Concern
623 CPCB Central Pollution Control Board
624 CPI Consumer Price Index
625 CPI(M) Communist Party of India (Marxist)
626 CPIAL Consumer Price Indices for Agricultural Labourers
627 CPI-IW Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers
628 CPIL Consumer Price Indices for Labour
629 CPMS Cooperative Programme on Marine Science
630 CPO Central Passport Organisation; Central Police Organisation
631 CPR Contraceptive Prevalence Rate
632 CPRI Central Power Research Institute
633 CPs Commercial Papers
634 CPS Central Plan Schemes
635 CPSE Central Public Sector Enterprise
636 CPU Central Processing Unit
637 CR Capital Receipts
638 CR Central Railway
639 CRAC Cyber Regulation Advisory Council639 CRAC Cyber Regulation Advisory Council
640 CRAR Capital to Risk Weighted Asset Ratio
641 CRC Committee on the Rights of the Child
642 CRC Convention on the Right of Children
643 CRDI Common Rail Direct Injection
644 CREATE Consortium for Educational Access, Transitions and Equity
645 CRISIL Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited
646 CRISP Center for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing
647 CRM Customs Reforms and Modernisation
648 CRM Customer Relationship Management
649 CrPC Criminal Procedure Code
650 CRPF Central Reserve Police Force
651 CRR Cash Reserve Ratio
652 CRSP Central Rural Sanitation Programme
653 CRZ Coastal Regulatory Zone
654 CSAT Civil Service Aptitude Test
655 CSD Cold Start Doctrine
656 CSE Centre for Science and Environment
657 CSI Computer Society of India
658 CSIR Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
659 CSIS Canadian Security Intelligence Service
660 CSISA Cereals System Initiative for South Asia
661 CSO Central Statistical Organisation
662 CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
663 CSR Child Sex Ratio
664 CSS Centrally Sponsored Scheme
665 CST Central Sales Tax
666 CSU Coordination and Support Unit
667 CTBT Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
668 CTI Committe on Trade and Investment
669 CTR Cash Transaction Report
670 CTS Computerised Tomography Scanner
671 CTT Commodities Transaction Tax
672 CVC Central Vigilance Commission
673 CVD Cardio Vascular Disease
674 CVRDE Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment
675 CWC Central Waqf Council
676 CWC Ceylon Workers Congress
677 CZERMP Coastal Zone Environmental and Resources Management Project
678 D. Lit. Doctor of Literature
679 DA Dearness Allowance; Daily Allowance
680 DAC Department of Agriculture and Cooperation
681 DALYs Disability Adjusted Life Years
682 DAP Development Action Plan
683 DARTTS Data Analysis and Research for Trade Transparency System
684 DAVP Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity
685 DBL Double Below the Poverty Line
686 DBOD Department of Banking Operations and Development
687 DBS Department of Banking Supervision, RBI
688 DBT Direct Benefit Transfer
689 DBTL Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG
690 DC Deputy Commissioner; Direct Current (in Electricity)
691 DCI Directorate of Criminal Investigation (Income Tax)
692 DC Pact Dudley Senanayake - Chelvanayakam Pact
693 DCA Department of Company Affairs, (Now known as Ministry of Companies Affairs, MCA), GOI
694 DCB Demand Collection and Balance
695 DCCB District Central Cooperative Bank
696 DCDA Data Center Development Agency
697 DCM Department of Currency Management, RBI
698 DCMMIS Disciplinary Cases Monitoring & Management Information System
699 DCSPs Data Centre Service Providers
700 DD Demand Draft700 DD Demand Draft
701 DDA Delhi Development Authority
702 DDC District Development Council
703 DDS Data Dissemination Standards
704 DDT Dichloro Diphenyle Tri-chloroethane
705 DDT Dichloro-Diphenyl Trichloro-ethane (disinfectant)
706 DEC Distance Education Council
707 DEd Diploma in Education
708 DEIO Department of External Investments and Operations
709 DESACS Department of Statistical Analysis & Computer Services, RBI
710 DFDR Digital Flight Data Recorder (Black box)
711 DFID Department For International Development (British Government's)
712 DFP Directorate of Field Publicity (under Mo I & B)
713 DFTP Duty Free Tariff Preference
714 DGBA Department of Government and Bank Accounts, RBI
715 DGCA Directorate General of Civil Aviation
716 DGCEI Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence
717 DGCI&S Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics
718 DGFASLI Directorate General of Factory Advice Service and Labour Institutes
719 DGICM Directors-General of Immigration and Consular Matters
720 DGIT Director General of Income Tax
721 DGSE Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (French intelligence service)
722 DI Direct Investment
723 DICGC Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation of India
724 DID Discharge of Internal Debt
725 DIG Deputy Inspector General
726 DIMTS Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System
727 DIN Director Information Number
728 DIPs Detailed Implementation Plans
729 DIPP Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion
730 DISE District Information System for Education
731 DLHS District Level Household Survey
732 DM District Magistrate
733 DM District Magistrate; Deputy Minister
734 DMA Departmentalized Ministries Account
735 DMI Disaster Management Institute
736 DMIC Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor
737 DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam
738 DMK Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (a regional political party of Tamil Nadu)
739 DNA Di-oxyribo-Nucleic Acid
740 DNI Director of National Intelligence
741 DNP District Nutrition Profile
742 DNVBDCP Directorate of National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme
743 DO Demi-official (letter)
744 DOD Department of Ocean Development; Department of Defence (US)
745 DOMA Defence of Marriage Act
746 DOTS Directly Observed Treatment Short-course
747 DOV Directorate of Valuation
748 DPAP ‘Drought Prone Area Programme
749 DPC Dabhol Power Company
750 DPEP District Primary Education Programme
751 DPI Director of Public Instruction
752 DPT Diptheria Pertusis Tetanus
753 DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
754 DRCOG Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
755 DRDO Defence Research and Development Organisation
756 DRES Department of Renewable Energy Sources
757 DRHS District Rapid Household Survey
758 DRI Differntial Rate of Interest Scheme; Directorate of Revenue Intelligence
759 DRIP District Rural Industrialisation Project
760 DRS Decision Review System (in Cricket)
761 DRS Dharm Raksha Sena (Religion Protection Army)761 DRS Dharm Raksha Sena (Religion Protection Army)
762 DSA Department of Special Assistance
763 DSBB Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board
764 DSD Disorder of Sexual Deveelopment
765 DSME Diabetes Self-Management Education GDM (Gestational diabetes mellitus)
766 DST Daylight Saving Time; Department ofScience and Technology
767 DTAA Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
768 DTAC Double Taxation Avoidance Convention
769 DTC Direct Daxes Code
770 DTH Direct to Home
771 DTH Direct to Home (broadcasting)
772 DTI Diffusion Tensor Imaging
773 DTL Demand and Time Liabilities
774 DVD Digital Versatile Disk
775 DVP Delivery Versus Payment
776 DWCD Department of Women and Child Development
777 E & OE Errors and Omissions Excepted
778 e.g. exempli gratia (for example)
779 EAEC East Asia Economic Caucus
780 EAEF EC-ASEAN Energy Facility
781 EAERR East Asia/ ASEAN Rice Reserve System
782 EAF East Asian Forum
783 EAG Empowered Action Group
784 EAI Enterprise for ASEAN Integration
785 EAMCET Engineering, Agriculture and Medicine Common Entrance Test
786 EAP-AP Environmental Assessment Programme for Asia and the Pacific
787 EAS Employment Assurance Scheme
788 EASG East Asia Study Group
789 EATF E-ASEAN Task Force
790 EAVG East Asia Vision Group
791 EAWG E-ASEAN Working Group
792 EBP Eksath Bhikku Peramuna
793 EBU Europe Broadcasting Union
794 EC European Commission
795 EC Election Commission
796 ECAP ASEAN-EC Patents and Trademarks System
797 ECB External Commercial Borrowing
798 ECB European Central Bank
799 ECCM Experts Committee on Custom Matters
800 ECG Electro Cardio-gram
801 ECGC Export Credit and Guarantee Corporation
802 EC-IIP European Community International Investment Partner
803 ECIP European Community Investment Partner Scheme
804 ECO Economic Cooperation Organization
805 ECOPS Environmental Cooperation Project Steering COmmittee
806 ECS Electronic Clearing Scheme
807 ECS Electronic Clearing Service
808 ECT Electro-convulsant Therapy (electric shock treatment)
809 ECU European Currency Union
810 ED Enforcement Directorate
811 EDMU External Debt Management Unit
812 EDP Entrepreneurial Development Program
813 EDP Executive Development Programme
814 EDUSAT Education Satellite
815 EE Environmental Education
816 EE&C-SSN Energy Efficiency and Conservation-Subsector Network
817 EEA Exchange Equalization Account
818 EEC European Economic Community
819 EEFC Exchange Earners Foreign Currency
820 EEG Electro Encephalogram
821 EEG Electro-encephalography
822 EER Enrolment of Eligible Ratio822 EER Enrolment of Eligible Ratio
823 EET Exempt Exempt Taxation
824 EFA Education For All
825 EFF Extended Fund Facility
826 EFL Ecologically Fragile Lands
827 EFR Exchange Fluctuation Reserve
828 EG Expert Group
829 EGAT Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
830 EGS Education Guarantee Scheme
831 EGIM Experts Group Meeting on Immigration Matters
832 EGoM Empowered Group of Ministers
833 EHTP Electronic Hardware Technology Parks
834 EIA Energy Information Administration
835 EIB European Investment Bank
836 EII Energy Intensive Industry
837 EIP Environmental Improvement Project
838 EIP Expanded Immunization Programme
839 EIPA European Institute of Public administration Programme
840 ELISA Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay
841 ELISA Enzyme Linked Immuno Solvent Assay (used for testing AIDS)
842 ELTO English Language Training for Officials
843 EnMAP Environmental Mapping and Analysis Programme (satellite belonging to Germany)
844 EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility
845 EMCP Enhanced Malaria Control Project
846 EMD Earnest Money Deposit EMD
847 EMEs Emerging Market Economies
848 EMF Electromotive Force
849 EMI Employment Market Information
850 EMI Equated Monthly Instalment
851 EMIS Educational Management Information System
852 EMoC Emergency Obstetric Care
853 EMS European Monetary System
854 EMTC Energy Management Training Courses
855 EMU Electric-Multiple Unit; Extra-vehicular Mobility Unit; Economic and Monetary Union (European)
856 ENRA Environmental and Natural Resources Accounting
857 EOC Equal Opportunity Commission
858 EOI Exchange Of Information
859 EOW Economic Offence Wing
860 E&P Exploration and Production
861 EPABX Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange
862 EPCG Export Promotion Capital Goods
863 EPCO Environmental Planning & Coordination Organization
864 EPFO Employees Provident Fund Organisation
865 EPG Eminent Persons Group
866 EPGG Energy Policy Governing Group
867 EPI Expanded Programme on Immunization
868 EPO European Patent Office
869 EPROM Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
870 EPSAP Energy Policy and System Analysis Project
871 EPTB Evacuee Property Trust Board
872 EPZ Export Processing Zone
873 ER Eastern Railway
874 ERDA Energy Research and Development Administration
875 ERE Enrolment Ratio based on Eligible
876 ERM Exchange Rate Mechanism
877 ERNET Educational and Research Network
878 ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
879 ESA European Space Agency
880 ESC Environmentally Sustainable Cities
881 ESCAP Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
882 ESI Environmental Sustainability Index
883 ESIC Employees' State Insurance Corporation883 ESIC Employees' State Insurance Corporation
884 ESIS Employment State Insurance Scheme
885 ESMA Essential Services Maintenance Act
886 ESOP Employee Stock Option Programme
887 ESR Education Sector Reform
888 ESSPA Energy Supply Security Planning in the ASEAN
889 etc. et cetera (and other things)
890 ETS Emisions Trading Scheme
891 EU European Union
892 EUR Euro
893 EVM Electronic Voting Machine
894 EVSL Experts Group on early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalization
895 EXIM Bank Export-Import Bank of India
896 FANS Future Air Navigation System
897 FAO Food and Agriculture Organization
898 FAQs Frequently Asked Questions
899 FASA Federation of ASEAN Shipowners' Association
900 FASC Federation of ASEAN Shippers Councils
901 FASID Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (Japan)
902 FATA Federally Administered Tribal Areas
903 FATF Financial Action Task Force (Global inter-government body - Paris based)
904 FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA)
905 FBIS Foreign Broadcast Information Service
906 FBTR Fast Breeder Test Reactor
907 FCA Foreign Currency Assets
908 FCCB Foreign Currency Convertible Bond
909 FCG Fisheries Consultative Group
910 FCI Food Corporation of India / Fertilizer Corporation of India
911 FCNR Foreign Currency Non-resident Accounts Scheme
912 FCNR(B) Foreign Currency Non-resident (Banks)
913 FCNRA Foreign Currency Non-resident Account
914 FCNRD Foreign Currency Non-Repatriable Deposit
915 FDA Food and Drugs Administration
916 FDI Foreign Direct Investment
917 FDR Flight Data Recorder (Black Box)
918 FDR Fixed Deposit Receipt
919 FDRS Fire Danger Rating System
920 FDS Faculty Development Scheme
921 FDS Feasibility Design Stage
922 FEMA Foreign Exchange Management Act (1999)
923 FERA Foreign Exchange Regulations Act (1973)
924 FGRID Forest Genetic Resource Information Database
925 FI Financial Institution
926 FIC Family of International Classification
927 FICCI Federation of India Chambers of Commerce and Industry
928 FIEO Federation of Indian Exports Organisation
929 FIFSTA Federation of International Food Science and Technology Associations
930 FII Foreign Institutional Investor
931 FIMMDAI Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India
932 FI Nnet Financial Intelligence Network
933 FIPB Foreign Investment Promotion Board (of India)
934 FIQC Fish Inspection and Quality Control
935 FIR First Information Report
936 FISIM Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured
937 FIU Financial Intelligence Unit
938 FLAG Fibre Optic Link Around the Globe
939 FLAS Foreign Liabilities and Assets Survey
940 FLCCC Financial Literacy & Credit Counselling Centres
941 FLETC Federal Law Enforcement Training Centre
942 FM Field Marshal; Frequency Modulated
943 FMCG Fast Moving Consumer Good
944 FMD Foot and Mouth Disease944 FMD Foot and Mouth Disease
945 FMRI Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
946 FMS Faculty of Management Studies
947 f.o.b. free on board
948 FOCPF Future-Orieted Cooperation Projects Fund
949 FOF Flow Of Funds
950 FOMC Federal Open Market Committee
951 FPI Foreign Portfolio Investment
952 FPSB Financial Planning Standards Boards (India)
953 FPT Fish Product Technology
954 FRA Agency for Fundamental Rights (European Union)
955 FRAs Forward Rate Agreements
956 FRBM Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (Act, 2003)
957 FRN Floating Rate Note
958 FRS Fellow of the Royal Society
959 FRU First Referral Unit
960 FSB Financial Stability Board
961 FSDPs Full Scale Demonstration Projects
962 FSI Forest Survey of India
963 FSMP Fire Supression Mobilization Plan
964 FSR Financial Stability Report
965 FSS Farmers’ Service Societies
966 FSSAI Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
967 FSW Female Sex Worker
968 FTA Free Trade Area; Free Trade Agreement
969 FTII Films and Television Institute of India
970 FTP File Transfer Protocol
971 FT&TR Foreign Tax and Tax Research
972 FTZ Free Trade Zone
973 FWC Family Welfare Centre
974 FWG First Working Group on Money Supply
975 G20 Group of Twenty
976 GAAR General Anti-Avoidance Rules (Finance Ministry's Committee on Controversial Tax Proposal)
977 GAGAN GPS-aided Geo-augmented Navigation
978 GAIL Gas Authority of India Limited
979 GAIN Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
980 GAP Good Agricultural Practice
981 GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
982 GAR Graduate Attainment Rate
983 GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services
984 GATT General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
985 GBoD Global Burden of Disease
986 GBS Gross Budgetar Support
987 GCA General Currency Area
988 GCC Gulf Cooperation Council
989 GCM Greatest Common Measure
990 GCU Government College University
991 GD General Diary
992 GDCF (N) Gross Domestic Capital Formation (Nominal)
993 GDI Gender Disparity Index
994 GDP (N) Gross Domestic Product (Nominal)
995 GDR Global Depository Receipt
996 GEF Global Environment Fund
997 GER Gross Enrolment Ratio; Gross Excluding Reversals
998 GFD Gross Fiscal Deficit
999 GFI Global Financial Integrity
1000 GFR Gross Fertility Rate
1001 GFS Government Finance Statistics
1002 GHG Greenhouse Gas
1003 GHQ General Headquarters
1004 GGIM Global Geospatial Information Management
1005 GIC General Insurance Corporation1005 GIC General Insurance Corporation
1006 GIS Geographical Information System
1007 GIS Global Information System
1008 GIST Graphics and Intelligence-based Script Technology
1009 GLS Generalized Least Squares
1010 GMOs Genetically Modified Organism
1011 GMP Good Manufacturing Practices
1012 GMPS Global Mobile Personal Communications System
1013 GMRT Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope
1014 GMS Greater Mekong Subregion
1015 GMT Greenwich Mean Time
1016 GNIE Government Not Included Elsewhere
1017 GNLF Gorkha National Liberation Front
1018 GNP Gross National Product
1019 GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
1020 GO Government Order
1021 GOC General Officer Commanding
1022 GOI Government Of India
1023 GoM Group of Ministers
1024 GoSL Government of Sri Lanka
1025 GPA Grade Point Average
1026 GPD Gross Primary Deficit
1027 GPF General Provident Fund
1028 GPO General Post Office
1029 GPRS General Packet Radio System
1030 GPS Global Positioning System (of USA)
1031 GRAs Genetic Reource Areas
1032 GRGs Giant Radio Galaxies
1033 GRR Gross Reproduction Rate
1034 GRSP Global Road Safety Partnership
1035 G-Sec Government Securities
1036 GSI Geological Survey of India
1037 GSLV Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle
1038 GSM Gram Shree Mela
1039 GSP General System of Preference
1040 GSP Generalised Special Preferences
1041 GST Goods and Service Tax
1042 GSTN Goods and Services Tax Network
1043 GSTP Global System of Trade Preferences
1044 GSTSPV Goods and Services Tax Special Purpose Vehicle
1045 GTD Global Terrorism Database
1046 GWP Global Warming Potential
1047 HAC Hindustan Aluminium Corporation
1048 HACCP Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points
1049 HAL Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
1050 HAPUA Heads of ASEAN Power Utilities / Authorities
1051 HAWS High Altitude Warfare School
1052 HBNC Home Based Neo-natal Care
1053 HCF Highest Common Factor
1054 HCR Head Count Ratio
1055 HDFC Housing Development Finance Corporation
1056 HDI Human Development Index
1057 HDRO Human Development Report Office
1058 HDTV High Definition Television
1059 HE His (or Her) Excellency; His (or Her) Eminence; High Explosive; Horizontal Equivalent
1060 HFT Held For Trading
1061 H-Gen Hindu General
1062 HICP Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices
1063 HITS Headend In The Sky
1064 HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus
1065 HLC High Level Committee
1066 HLEG High Level Expert Group1066 HLEG High Level Expert Group
1067 HLTF High Level Task Force
1068 HMIS Health Management Information System
1069 HMMWV High Mobility Multipurpose-Wheeled Vehicle
1070 HMS Hybrid Mail Service
1071 HMT Hindustan Machine Tools
1072 HO Head Office
1073 HOA Habitual Offenders Act
1074 H-OBC Hindu Other backward Classes
1075 HONLEA Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies
1076 HP Himachal Pradesh; Horizontal Plane; Horse Power
1077 HPA Hanoi Plan of Action
1078 HPG Haze Prevention Group
1079 HRCP Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
1080 HRD Human Resource Development
1081 HRDM Human Resources Development and Management
1082 HRMS Human Resource Management System
1083 HRW Human Rights Watch
1084 HS Harmonized System
1085 H-SCs/STs Hindu Schedule castes/Schedule Tribes
1086 HSN Harmonised System of Nomenclature
1087 HST Health Situation and Trends
1088 HTML Hyper Text Markup Language
1089 HTTF Haze Technical Task Force
1090 HTTP Hypetext Transfer Protocol
1091 HuA Harkat-ul-Ansar
1092 H-UC Hindu Upper Caste
1093 HUDCO Housing and Urban Development Corporation
1094 HuJI Harakat ul-Jihad-Islami
1095 HuJI-B Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami-Bangladesh
1096 HuM Harkat ul-Mujahideen
1097 HUNGaMA Hunger and Malnutrition
1098 HVC High Value Clearing
1099 HVDC High Voltage Direct Current
1100 HYVS High Yield Variety Seeds
1101 i.e. id est (that is)
1102 IAAI International Airport Authority of India
1103 IAAS Indian Audit and Accounts Service
1104 lAC Indian Airlines Corporation
1105 IACS Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
1106 IADF International Agricultural Development Fund
1107 IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
1108 IAECC India-ASEAN Economic Cooperation Committee
1109 IAF Indian Air Force
1110 IAI Initiative for ASEAN Integration
1111 IAMC Indian Army Medical Corps
1112 IAPs Immediate Action Plans
1113 IARI Indian Agricultural Research Institute
1114 IAS Indian Administrative Service
1115 IASs Indian Accounting Standards
1116 IATA International Air Transport Association
1117 IATEP Inter-ASEAN Technical Exchange Programme
1118 IATT Inland Air Travel Tax
1119 IAU International Association of Universities
1120 IAY Indira Awas Yojana
1121 IB Intelligence Bureau
1122 IBA Indian Banks' Association
1123 IBAB Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biology
1124 IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
1125 IBRS International Business Reply Services
1126 IBS International Banking Statistics
1127 IC Intelligence Community (US)1127 IC Intelligence Community (US)
1128 ICAI Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
1129 ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
1130 ICAO Internation Civil Aviation Organization
1131 ICAR Indian Council of Agricultural Research
1132 ICBM Inter Continental Ballistic Missile
1133 ICC International Christian Concern
1134 ICC International Criminal Court
1135 ICC International Cricket Council
1136 ICCL Indian Clearing Corporation Limited
1137 ICCPR International Convention on Civil and Political Rights
1138 ICCR Indian Council of Cultural Relations
1139 ICCW Indian Council for Child Welfare
1140 ICDS Integrated Child Development Scheme
1141 ICES International Centre for Ethnic Studies
1142 ICESR International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
1143 ICFTU International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
1144 ICG International Crisis Group
1145 ICGEB International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
1146 ICGFI International Consultative Group on Food Irradiation
1147 ICICI Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India
1148 ICJ International Court of Justice (with Headquarters at the Hague)
1149 ICL Indian Cricket League
1150 ICLARM International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Development
1151 ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research
1152 ICMSF International Commission on Microbiological Specification for Foods
1153 ICNGO Indian Chamber of Non Government Organization
1154 ICP International Comparison Programme, Immigration Check Post
1155 ICPA Indian Cricket Players’ Association
1156 ICPD International Conference on Population and Development
1157 ICPM International Committee on Phytosanitary Measures
1158 ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross
1159 ICSI Indian Company Secretaries Institute
1160 ICSSR Indian Council of Social Science Research
1161 ICT Information and Communication Technology
1162 ICTSD Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development
1163 IDA International Development Agency/Association
1164 IDB India Development Bonds
1165 IDBI Industrial Development Bank of India
1166 IDCF IAI Development Cooperation Forum
1167 IDD Industrial Development Department
1168 IDEA Initiative for Development in East Asia
1169 IDF International Diabetes Federation
1170 IDMI Infrastructure Development in Minority Institutions
1171 IDO International Defence Organisation
1172 IDPAS Institutional Development for ASEAN Secretariat
1173 IDPL Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited
1174 IDSA Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis
1175 IDSP Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme
1176 IEA International Energy Agency
1177 IEC Information Education Communication
1178 IEDs Improvized Explosive Devices
1179 IEDSS Inclusive Education for the Disabled at Secondary Stage
1180 IEF International Energy Forum
1181 IEG Independent Evaluation Group - email: ieg.WorldBankGroup.org
1182 IES Indian Economic Service
1183 IEX Indian Energy Exchange
1184 IFA Indian Football Association
1185 IFA Iron and Folic Acid
1186 IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development
1187 IFC(W) International Finance Corporation (Washington)
1188 IFCI Industrial Finance Corporation of India1188 IFCI Industrial Finance Corporation of India
1189 IFF Intergovernmental Forum on Forests, Illicit Financial Flow
1190 IFFCO Indian Farmers Fertilizers Cooperative
1191 IFG Impaired Fasting Glucose
1192 IFFI International Film Festival of India
1193 IFIs International Financial Institutions
1194 IFR Investment Fluctuation Reserve Account
1195 IFRS International Financial Reporting Standard
1196 IFS International Financial Statistics
1197 IFS Indian Foreign Service; Indian Forest Service
1198 IFTU International Federation of Trade Unions
1199 IFWJ Indian Federation of Working Journalists
1200 IGLS Iterative Generalized Least Squares
1201 IGNOU Indira Gandhi National Open University
1202 IGNOAPS Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme
1203 IGT Impaired Glucose Tolerance
1204 IHSDP Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme
1205 IIBI Industrial Investment Bank of India
1206 IIF International Islamic Front
1207 IIITDM Indian Institute of Information Technology and Manufacturing
1208 IILP Inter-Institutional Linkages Programme
1209 IIM Indian Institute of Management
1210 IIP Index of Industrial Production
1211 IIP/InIP International Investment Position
1212 IIPA Indian Institute of Public Administration
1213 IIPS International Institute for Population Sciences
1214 IIS Indian Institute of Sciences
1215 IISc Indian Institute of Science
1216 IISCO Indian Iron and Steel Company
1217 IISS International Institute of Strategic Studies
1218 IIT Indian Institute of Technology
1219 ILO International Labour Organisation
1220 ILS Instrument Landing System
1221 ILSI International Life Sciences Institute
1222 ILT International LOFAR Telescope
1223 ILU International Leprosy Union
1224 IMA Indian Military Academy
1225 IMC Indian Medical Council
1226 IMCC Inter-Ministerial Coordination Committee (of Financing of Terrorism and Prevention of Money Laundering)
1227 IMD India Millennium Deposits
1228 IMET International Military Education Training Programme
1229 IMF International Monetary Fund
1230 IMNCI Integrated Management of Nutrition and Childhood Illnesses; Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses
1231 IMO International Maritime Organisation
1232 IMR Infant Mortality Rate
1233 IMT-GT Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle
1234 IN India
1235 IN Indian Navy; Intelligent Network
1236 INA Indian National Army
1237 INC Indian Nursing Council
1238 INCB International Narcotics Control Board
1239 INDEST Indian Digital Library for Science and Technology
1240 INGCA Indira Gandhi Gallery for Culture and Art
1241 INGO International Non Governmental Organisation
1242 INK International Newspaper Kiosks
1243 INM Integrated Nutrient Management
1244 INMARSAT International Maritime Satellite Organisation
1245 INMAS Institute of Nuclear Medicines and Allied Sciences
1246 INR Indian Rupee
1247 INS Indian Naval Ship; Indian Newspaper Society
1248 INSAS Indian Small Arms System
1249 INSAT Indian National Satellite1249 INSAT Indian National Satellite
1250 INSPIRE Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research
1251 INTA International Trademark Association
1252 INTELSAT International Telecommunication Satellite
1253 INTERPOL International Police Organisation
1254 INTUC Indian National Trade Union Congress
1255 IOC International Olympic Committee / Indian Oil Corporation
1256 IOJ Islami Okiyya Jote
1257 IOM Internation Organization for Migration
1258 IOTT Input-Output Transaction Table
1259 IP Intellectual Property
1260 IP Interest Payment
1261 IP Indian Police
1262 IPAB Intellectual Property Appellate Board
1263 IPC Indian Penal Code; Inter Personal Communication
1264 IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
1265 IPD Information Preparation and Dissemination
1266 IPEC International Programme on Elimination of Child Labour
1267 IPHS Indian Public Health Standards
1268 IPI Iran Pakistan India
1269 IPKF Indian Peace Keeping Force
1270 IPL Indian Premier League (Cricket)
1271 IPM Integrated Pest Management
1272 IPO Initial Public Offer
1273 IPR Immovable Property Returns
1274 IPR Intellectual Property Rights
1275 IPS Indian Police Service; Indian Postal Service; Internet Protocol Suite (US)
1276 IPTV Internet Protocol Television
1277 IPU Inter-Parliamentary Union
1278 IQ Intelligence Quotient
1279 IR Infra-red
1280 IRA Insurance Regulatory Authority
1281 IRBI Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India
1282 IRBM Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
1283 IRC International Red Cross
1284 IRDA Insurance Regulatory Development Authority
1285 IRDP Integrated Rural Development Programme
1286 IREP Integrated Rural Energy Planning
1287 IRFA International Religious Freedom Act of 1998
1288 IRIA Indian Radiological and Imaging Associations
1289 IRIS Interim Research and Intelligence Service
1290 IRNSS Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System
1291 IRS Interest Rate Swap
1292 IRS Indian Remote Sensing
1293 IRS Indian Remote Sensing Satellite; Indian Revenue Service
1294 ISAF International Stabilization and Assistance Force (in Afghanistan); International Security Assistance Force
1295 ISB Indian Standard Bureau
1296 ISC Inter-State Council
1297 ISCS Integrated Smart Card System
1298 ISD International Subscriber Dialled (telephone)
1299 ISDA International Swaps and Derivative Association
1300 ISEAS Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
1301 ISG-CBM Intersessional Support Group on Confidence-Building Measures
1302 ISH Information Super Highway
1303 ISHUP Interest Subsidy Scheme of Housing for Urban Poor
1304 ISI Inter Services Intelligence (Pakistani)
1305 ISI Indian Standards Institute
1306 ISIC International Standard Industrial Classification
1307 ISIS Institute of Strategic and International Studies
1308 ISKCON International Society for Krishna Consciousness
1309 ISM Indian School of Mines
1310 ISM Indian System of Medicine1310 ISM Indian System of Medicine
1311 ISM&H Indian System of Medicine and Homeopathy
1312 ISM-CTTC Inter-sessional Meeting on Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime
1313 ISO Inetrnational Standards Organization
1314 ISP Internet Service Provider
1315 ISPA Indo Sri Lanka Peace Accord
1316 ISQAP Industrial Standards and Quality Assurance Programme (ASEAN-EC Programme)
1317 ISRO Indian Space Research Organization
1318 ISS International Space Station
1319 IST Indian Standard Time
1320 ISTRAC ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network
1321 ITB Internationale Tourisme Bourse
1322 ITBP Indo-Tibet Border Police
1323 ITDC Indian Tourism Development Corporation
1324 ITDMS Integrated Taxpayer Data Management System
1325 ITES Information Technology Enabled Services
1326 ITI Industrial Training Institute
1327 ITO International Trade Organisation; Income-tax Officer
1328 ITOU Income Tax Overseas Unit
1329 ITPO Indian Trade Promotion Organisation
1330 ITRS International Transaction Reporting System
1331 ITS Intelligent Transport System
1332 ITTO International Tropical Timber Organization
1333 ITU International Tele-communication Union
1334 ITUC Indian Trade Union Congress
1335 ITWG Interim Technical Working Group
1336 IUC Interconnect User Charge
1337 IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resource
1338 IUD Intra Uterine Device (Post Partum)
1339 IUEP Integrated Urban Energy Planning
1340 IUI Intrauterine Insemination
1341 IVAC International Vaccine Access Center (USA)
1342 IVF In Vitro Fertilisation
1343 IWDP Integrated Wasteland Development Programme
1344 IWGEDS International Working Group on External Debt Statistics
1345 IWRM Integrated Water Resources Management
1346 J&K Jammu and Kashmir
1347 JACPP Japan-ASEAN Cooperation Promotion Programme
1348 JAEP Japan-ASEAN Exchange Project
1349 JAFTA Japan-ASEAN Finance Technical Assistance
1350 JAGEF Japan-ASEAN General Exchange Fund
1351 JATA Japan Association of Travel Agents
1352 JBIC Japan Bank for International Cooperation
1353 JCC Joint Consultative Committee
1354 JCM Joint Consultative Meeting
1355 JCMOE Joint Committee of Muslim Organisations for Empowerment
1356 JCO Junior Commissioned Officer
1357 JE Japanese Encephalitis
1358 JeI Jamaat-e-Islam
1359 JeM Jaish-e-Mohammed
1360 JETRO Japanese Exetrnal Trade Organisation
1361 JEVS Jan Shiksha Evam Vikas Sansthan
1362 Jhar Jharkhand
1363 JHU Jathika Hela Urumaya
1364 JIH Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
1365 JLSAP Joint Linkages Appraisal Panel
1366 JMB Jama’atul Mujahedin Bangladesh
1367 JMC Joint Management Committee
1368 JMJB Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh
1369 JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
1370 JNNURM Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
1371 JNV Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya1371 JNV Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya
1372 JNVST Jawahar Navodaya Selection Test
1373 JPC Joint Parliamentary Committee
1374 JPC Joint Planning Committee
1375 JPC-SC Joint Planning Committee to the Sub-Committee
1376 JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
1377 JPMC Joint Planning and Monitoring Committee
1378 JPRC Joint Planning and Review Committe
1379 JSSK Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram
1380 JSTC Joint Science and Technology Committee
1381 JTF Joint Task Force
1382 Juh Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind
1383 JVP Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
1384 JWG Joint Working Group
1385 KAIST Korean Advance Institute of Science and Technology
1386 KCC Kisan Credit Cards
1387 KDI Korean Development Institute
1388 KG Kindergarten
1389 Kg Kilogramme
1390 KGBV Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya
1391 KIET Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade
1392 KMA Korean Metereology Administration
1393 KNTC Korea National Tourism Corporation
1394 KOICA Korea International Cooperation Agency
1395 KOTFA Korean World Travel Fair
1396 KOTRA Korea Trade Promotion Corporation
1397 KPO Knowledge Process Outsourcing
1398 KRIBB Korean Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology
1399 KVIC Khadi & Village Industries Corporation
1400 KYC Know Your Customer
1401 L&DO Land & Development Officer
1402 LAC Line of Actual Control
1403 LAF Liquidity Adjustment Facility
1404 LAMPS Large-sized Adivasi Multipurpose Societies
1405 LAN Local Area Network
1406 LAS Loan & Advances by States
1407 LASER Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission of Radiation
1408 LBI Legally Binding Instrument
1409 LBS Locational Banking Statistics
1410 LBW Low Birth Weight
1411 LCA Light Combat Aircraft
1412 LCC Low-Cost Carrier
1413 LCR Living Coastal Resources
1414 LCU Local Currency Unit
1415 LDB Land Development Bank
1416 LDC Least Developed Countries
1417 LEB Life Expectancy at Birth
1418 LEBM Lanka Eksath Bhikku Mandalaya
1419 LERMS Liberalised Exchange Rate Management System
1420 LET Lashkar-e-Taiba
1421 LF Left Front
1422 LFPR Labour Force Participation Rate
1423 LHC Large Hadron Collider
1424 LHV Lady Health Visitor
1425 LIC Life Insurance Corporation (of India)
1426 LINKS Legal Information Network System
1427 LLB Bachelor of Law
1428 LLM Master of Law
1429 LLP Limited Liability Partnership
1430 LMCs Low- and Middle-income Countries
1431 LMG Light Machine Gun
1432 LoAC Line of Actual Control (China)1432 LoAC Line of Actual Control (China)
1433 LoC Line of Control (Pakistan)
1434 LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas
1435 LS Level Shift
1436 LSD Lysergic acid diethylamide
1437 LSG Local Self Governments
1438 LSSP Lanka Sama Samaja Party
1439 LT Long Term
1440 LTA Light Transport Aircraft
1441 LTIIR Land Transport Infrastructure Integration Roadmap
1442 LTO Long Term Operation
1443 LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam
1444 LTU Large Taxpayer Unit
1445 LXR Liver X Receptor
1446 M1 Narrow Money
1447 M3 Broad Money
1448 MA Master of Arts
1449 MA Moving Average
1450 MASER Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
1451 MASINT Measurement and Signature Intelligence
1452 MAT Minimum Alternative Tax
1453 M-ATM Meeting of the ASEAN Tourism Ministers
1454 MAWA Momin Ansar Welfare Association
1455 MBA Master of Business Administration
1456 MBBS Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
1457 MBC Most Backward Class
1458 MBDS Mekong Basin Disease Surveilance
1459 MBT Main Battle Tank
1460 MC Management Committee
1461 MCA Monetary Compensatory Allowance / Master of Computer Application
1462 MCA Ministry of Company Affairs
1463 MCC Melbourne Cricket Club
1464 MCCD Medical Certification of Causes of Death
1465 MCDs Minority Concentration Districts
1466 MCF Master Control Facility
1467 MCM Multinational Cultural Mission
1468 MCMSS Merit-Cum-Means Scholarship Scheme
1469 MCR Matriculation Completion Rates
1470 MCTS Mother and Child Tracking System
1471 MD Doctor of Medicine
1472 MDG Millennium Development Goals
1473 MDI Management Development Institute
1474 MDM Mid-day-Meal
1475 MDR Multi Drug Resistant (TB)
1476 MDT Multi Drug Treatment; Multi Drug Therapy
1477 MEAs Multilateral Environment Agreements
1478 MEIA Minorities Educational Institutions Association (in UP)
1479 MEP Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
1480 MEP Minimum Export Price
1481 MER Mars Exploration Rover
1482 MES Military Engineering Service
1483 MES Modular Employable Skills
1484 MESCO Muslim Educational, Social & Cultural Organisation
1485 METI Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industri
1486 METSAT Meteorological Satellite
1487 MFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1488 MFA Multi-Fibre Agreement
1489 MFI Micro Financial Institutions
1490 MFN Most Favoured Nation
1491 MFRD Marine Fisheries Research Department
1492 MGD Million Gallons per Day
1493 MGI McKinsey Global Institute1493 MGI McKinsey Global Institute
1494 MHA Ministry of Home Affairs
1495 MHRD Ministry of Human Resource Development
1496 MI Military Intelligence
1497 MIGA Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
1498 MIKRS Minimally Invasive Knee Replacement (resurfacement) Surgery
1499 MIP Moon Impact Probe
1500 MIS Management Information System
1501 MISA Maintenance of Internal Security Act
1502 MIT Mechachusates Institute of Technology (USA)
1503 MITI Ministry of International Trade and Industry
1504 MLA Member of Legislative Assembly
1505 MLAT Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty
1506 MLC Member of Legislative Council
1507 MLD Million Liter per Day
1508 MLFP Market Linked Focus Product
1509 MLM Multi Level Marketing
1510 MLS Microwave Landing System
1511 MMA Ministry of Minority Affairs
1512 MMA Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
1513 MMBA Mahila Mandal Barmer Agor
1514 MMP Mission Mode Project
1515 MMR Maternal Mortality Rate; Maternal Mortality Ratio
1516 MMS Multimedia Messaging Service
1517 MMSE Minimum Mean Squared Errors
1518 MMTC Minerals and Metals Trading Corporation of India
1519 MNA Member of the National Assembly
1520 MNC Multi National Corporation
1521 MNE Multi National Enterprise
1522 MNIC Multi-purpose National Identity Card
1523 MNS Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
1524 MODEM Modulator-Demodulator
1525 MODVAT Modified Value Added Tax
1526 MoEF Ministry of Environment and Forests
1527 MoF Ministry of Finance
1528 MOF Master Office File
1529 MoHFW Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
1530 MOM Mars Orbiter Mission
1531 MOMSME Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
1532 MOSS Maya Organic Support Services
1533 MOU Memorandum of Understanding
1534 MP Member of Parliament
1535 MPCE Monthly Per Capita Expenditure
1536 MPI Multidimensional Poverty Index
1537 MRAs Mutual Recognition Arrangements
1538 MRCP Member of Royal College of Physicians
1539 MRCS Member of Royal College of Surgeons
1540 MRGI Minority Rights Group International
1541 MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
1542 MRLs Maximum Residue Limits
1543 MRM Monitoring and Review Mechanism
1544 MRPM Mixed Reference Period Method
1545 MRTPC Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission
1546 MRTS Mass Rapid Transit System
1547 MRV Monitoring, Reprting and Verifying
1548 MSA Maritime Safety Agency
1549 MSCF Maritime Security Cooperation Framework
1550 MSDP Multi Sectoral Development Programme
1551 MSF Medecins Sans Frontieres (provides medical humanitarian aid worldwide, is waging a war against kala azar in Bihar)
1552 MSM Men who have Sex with Men
1553 MSME Micro Small & Medium Enterprises
1554 MSP Minimum Support Price1554 MSP Minimum Support Price
1555 MSS Market Stabilisation Scheme
1556 Mss Manuscript
1557 MSSS Multi-frequency Snapshot Sky Survey
1558 MSWs Medical Social Workers
1559 MT Mail Transfer
1560 MTCR Missile Technology Control Regime
1561 MTM Mark-To-Market
1562 MT-NIT Multimodal Transport and New Information Technology
1563 MTO Multilateral Trade Organisation
1564 MTP Medical Termination of Pregnancy
1565 MTS Multi Tasking Staff
1566 MU Ministerial Understanding
1567 MVA Motor Vehicle Act (1988)
1568 MVC Maha Vir Chakra
1569 MVE Market Value of Equity
1570 MWS Muslim Women’s Survey
1571 MYS Mean Years of Schooling
1572 NAA National Airport Authority
1573 NAAC National Assessment and Accreditation Council
1574 NABARD National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development
1575 NAC(LTO) National Agricultural Credit (Long Term Operatiion)
1576 NACA Network of Aquaculture Centre in Asia and Pacific
1577 NACIL National Aviation Company of India Ltd
1578 NACO National AIDS Control Organisation
1579 NADA National Anti-Doping Agency
1580 NAEP National Adult Education Programme
1581 NAFED National Agricultural and Marketing Federation
1582 NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement; North American Free Trade Area
1583 NAG National Air Guard
1584 NAIO Non Administratively Independent Office
1585 NAM Non-aligned Movement
1586 NAMA Non-Agriculture Market Access
1587 NAME North Africa and Middle East
1588 NAMP National Anti-Malaria Programme
1589 NAPP Narora Atomic Power Plant
1590 NAS National Academy of Sciences
1591 NAS National Account Statistics, National Accounting System
1592 NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)
1593 NASDA National Space Development Agency
1594 NASDAQ National Association of Security Dealer’s Active Quotation
1595 NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation
1596 NASSCOM National Association of Software and Services Companies
1597 NATA Natural Aptitude Test for Architecture
1598 NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
1599 NAV Net Asset Value
1600 NB Nota bene; note well, or take notice
1601 NBA National Board of Accreditation
1602 NBC Non-Banking Companies
1603 NBC Nuclear, Biological and Chemical
1604 NBCCs New Born Care Corners
1605 NBCFDC National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation
1606 NBD National Data Bank
1607 NBFCs Non-Banking Financial Companies
1608 NBRUs National Biodiversity Refernce Units
1609 NBSU New Born Stabilization Unit
1610 NCA Nuclear Command Authority
1611 NCAER National Council of Applied Economic Research
1612 NCB Narcotics Control Bureau
1613 NCBC National Backward Classes Commission
1614 NCC National Cadet Corps
1615 NCCR National Council for Civil Right1615 NCCR National Council for Civil Right
1616 NCD Non Communicable Diseases
1617 NCDRC National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission
1618 NCEP National Committee on Environmental Planning
1619 NCERT National Council of Educational Research and Training
1620 NCHS National Centre for Health Statistics
1621 NCM National Commission for Minorities
1622 NCMEI National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions
1623 NCMP National Common Minimum Program
1624 NCLP National Child Labour Project
1625 NCMP National Common Minimum Programme
1626 NCP Network Control Program
1627 NCPCR National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
1628 NCPUL National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language
1629 NCR Native Customary Rights
1630 NCR National Capital Region
1631 NCRB National Crime Records Bureau
1632 NCRP National Cancer Registry Programme
1633 NCS National Clandestine Service
1634 NCSC National Commission for the Scheduled Castes
1635 NCSW National Council on Social Welfare
1636 NCT National Capital Territory
1637 NCTC National Counter Terrorism Centre
1638 NCTE National Council of Teacher Education
1639 NCW National Commission for Women
1640 NCW National Commission for Women
1641 NDA National Defence Academy; National Democratic Alliance; New Drug Application
1642 NDC National Development Council
1643 NDDB National Dairy Development Board
1644 NDF National Defence Fund.
1645 NDMA National Disaster Management Authority
1646 NDNC National Do Not Call (Registry)
1647 NDP National Diabetes Programme
1648 NDPS Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances
1649 NDRF National Disaster Response Force
1650 NDS Negotiated Dealing System
1651 NDTL National Dope Testing Laboratory
1652 NDTLs Net Demand and Time Liabilities
1653 NEC National Education Commission
1654 NEC Not Elsewhere Classified
1655 NECE National Early Childhood Education
1656 NECTEC National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
1657 NEDB North-Eastern Development Bank
1658 NEER Nominal Effective Exchange Rate
1659 NEERI National Environment Engineering Research Institute
1660 NEET Not in Employment, Education or Training
1661 NEFA North-East Frontier Agency
1662 NEFT National Electronic Funds Transfer
1663 NeGP National e-governance Plan
1664 NELP New Exploration Licensing Policy
1665 NEP National Education Policy
1666 NEPA National Environment Protection Authority
1667 NEPC North East Provincial Council
1668 NER Net Enrolment Ratio
1669 NERIC National Environment Resource Information Centers
1670 NFA Non-Foreign Exchange Assets
1671 NFBS National Family Benefit Scheme
1672 NFD Net Fiscal Deficit
1673 NFDC National Film Development Corporation
1674 NFE Non-Formal Education
1675 NFHS National Family Health Survey
1676 NFL National Fertilizer Limited1676 NFL National Fertilizer Limited
1677 NFLMW National Floor Level Minimum Wage
1678 NFO New Fund Offers
1679 NFP National Forest Programme
1680 NFPWG National Focal Point Working Group
1681 NFSM National Food Security Mission
1682 NGA National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
1683 NGO Non Government Organization
1684 NGP Nirmal Gram Pursakar
1685 NGS Next-Generation Sequencing
1686 NGUT Natural Gas Utilization in Transport
1687 NHAPs National Haze action Plans
1688 NHARSS National Highway Accident Relief Service Scheme
1689 NHB National Housing Bank
1690 NHDP National Highways Development Programme/Project
1691 NHM National Horticulture Mission
1692 NHP National Health Policy
1693 NHRC National Human Rights Commission
1694 NIA National Intelligence Agency
1695 NIC National Industrial Classification
1696 NIC National Integration Council, National Informatic Centre
1697 NICFS National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science
1698 NICO New Information and Communication Order
1699 NIDC National Industrial Development Corporation
1700 NIEPA National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration
1701 NIF Note Issuance Facility
1702 NIFM National Institute of Financial Management
1703 NIFT National Institute of Fashion Technology
1704 NIIs National Information Infrastructure
1705 NIIT National Institute of Information Technology
1706 NIM Net Interest Margin
1707 NIMC National Implementation and Monitoring Committee
1708 NIMHANS National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences
1709 NIO National Institute of Oceanography
1710 NIPFP National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
1711 NIQ Notice Inviting Quotation
1712 NIS National Institute of Sports
1713 NISM National Institute of Securities Markets
1714 NIT National Institute of Technology
1715 NITIE National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering
1716 NLCP National Lake Conversation Plan
1717 NLCPR Non Lapsible Central Pool of Resources
1718 NLEP National Leprosy Eradication Programme
1719 NLMA National Literacy Mission Authority
1720 NLSA National Legal Services Authority
1721 NLSI New Linguistic Survey of India
1722 NMBS National Maternity Benefit Scheme
1723 NMCC National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council
1724 NMD Nuclear Missile Defence
1725 NMDC National Mineral Development Corporation
1726 NMDFC National Minorities Development Finance Corporation
1727 NMDS National Missile Defence System (US)
1728 NMEP National Malaria Eradication Programme
1729 NMSC National Merit Scholarship Corporation
1730 NMSQT National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test
1731 NNM National Nutrition Mission
1732 NNMB National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau
1733 NNML Net Non-Monetary Liabilities
1734 NNP Net National Product
1735 NNP National Nutrition Mission
1736 NOC No Objection Certificate
1737 NOIDA New Okhla Industrial Development Authority1737 NOIDA New Okhla Industrial Development Authority
1738 NOAPS National Old Age Pension Scheme
1739 NPS National Pension System
1740 NPA Non-Performing Assets
1741 NPC National Productivity Council
1742 NPCB National Programme for Control of Blindness
1743 NPD Net Primary Deficit
1744 NPE National Policy on Education
1745 NPEGEL National Programme of Education for Girls at Elementary Level
1746 NPIC National Photo Interpretation Center
1747 NPL National Physical Laboratory
1748 NPO Non Profit Organisation
1749 NPP National Population Policy
1750 NPR National Population Register
1751 NPRB Net Primary Revenue Balance
1752 NPT Non-Proliferation Treaty (Nuclear)
1753 NPTEL National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
1754 NPV Net Present Value
1755 NR(E)RA Non-Resident (External) Rupee Account
1756 NR(NR)RA Non-Resident (Non-Repatriable) Rupee Account
1757 NRBI National Rural Bank of India
1758 NRCs Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres
1759 NRCP National River Conversation Plan
1760 NRDC National Research and Development Corporation
1761 NRE Non-Resident External
1762 NREGA National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
1763 NREP National Rural Employment Programme
1764 NRF National Renewal Fund
1765 NRG Non-Resident Government
1766 NRHM National Rural Health Mission
1767 NRI Non Resident Indian
1768 NRO National Reconnaissance Office
1769 NRR National Reproduction Rate
1770 NRSA National Remote Sensing Agency
1771 NRSC National Road Safety Council
1772 NRSE New and Renewable Sources of Energy
1773 NSA National Security Agency
1774 NSA National Security Act
1775 NSAP National Social Assistance Programme
1776 NSC National Security Council
1777 NSC National Statistical Commission
1778 NSC National Service Corps
1779 NSCCL National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited
1780 NSDF National Skill Development Fund
1781 NSDL National Securities Depository Limited
1782 NSE National Stock Exchange
1783 NSF North South Foundation
1784 NSG National Security Guard
1785 NSR National Skills Registry
1786 NSSF National Small Savings Fund
1787 NSSO National Sample Survey Organisation
1788 NSV No Scalpel Vasectomy
1789 NSWC National Social Watch Coalition
1790 NTAGI National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (India)
1791 NTBs Non-Tariff Barriers
1792 NTC National Textile Corporation
1793 NTM National Translation Mission
1794 NTOs ASEAN National Tourism Organizations
1795 NTP National TB Programme
1796 NTPC National Thermal Power Corporation
1797 NTRO National Technical Research Organisation
1798 NTS Non-Traditional Sources1798 NTS Non-Traditional Sources
1799 NTSC Nippon TCS Solution Center
1800 NTSE National Talent Search Examination
1801 NTTCCs National Transit Transprot Coordinating Committees
1802 NUHM National Urban Health Mission
1803 NUIS National Urban Information System
1804 NVs Navodaya Vidyalayas
1805 NVBDCP National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme
1806 NVEQF National Vocational Education Qualifications Framework
1807 NWDA National Water Development Agency
1808 NWDC National Wakf Development Corporation
1809 NWFP North West Frontier Province
1810 NWRC National Water Resources Council
1811 NWS Nuclear Weapon States
1812 NYCLD National Youth Computer Literacy Drive
1813 NYKS Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan
1814 O&G Ownership and Governance
1815 OAS Organisation of American States
1816 OAU Organisation of African Unity
1817 OAME Own Account Manufacturing Enterprise
1818 OBC Other Backward Class; Other Backward Communities
1819 OBU Offshore Banking Unit
1820 OCI Overseas Citizenship of India
1821 OCTOPUS Organisation for Counter Terrorist Operations
1822 OD Over Draft
1823 ODA Official Development Assistance
1824 ODF Open Document Format
1825 ODI Overseas Derivative Instrument
1826 ODS Ozone Depleting Substances; Ozone Depletion Substances
1827 OECD Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development
1828 OECO Organisaton for Economic Co-operation
1829 OFC Offshore Financial Centre
1830 OFI Other Financial Institutions
1831 OGA Other Government Agencies
1832 OGL Open General Licence
1833 OHIM Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
1834 OIC Organization of Islamic Countries
1835 OIE Organisation Internationale des Epizootics
1836 OIGS On India Government Service
1837 OIL Oil India Limited
1838 OK All Correct
1839 OLC Official Languages Commission
1840 OLTAS OnLine Tax Accounting System
1841 OM Order of Merit
1842 OMO Open Market Operation
1843 ONGC Oil and Natural Gas Commission
1844 OPCV Overseas Project Corporation of Victoria
1845 OPEC Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
1846 OPV Oral Polio Vaccine
1847 ORA Online Recruitment Application (UPSC)
1848 ORG Operations Research Group
1849 OSA Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
1850 OSC Open Source Center
1851 OSCB Other Indian Scheduled Commercial Bank
1852 OSCE Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
1853 OSD Officer on Special Duty
1854 OSHNET ASEAN Occupational Safety and Health Network
1855 OSMS Online Scholarship Management System
1856 OSO Office of Special Operations
1857 OSS Office of Strategic Services
1858 OTC Over The Counter
1859 OWP Overall Working Plan1859 OWP Overall Working Plan
1860 OXML Open Extended Marking Language
1861 PAB Project Approval Board
1862 PAC Project Advisory Committee; Project Appraisal Committee
1863 PAC Political Affairs Committee; Public Accounts Committee
1864 PACER Programme for Acceleration of Commercial Energy Research
1865 PACF Partial Auto-Correlation Function
1866 PACS Primary Agriculture Credit Societies
1867 PAIS Personal Accident Insurance Scheme
1868 PAN Permanent Account Number (of Income-Tax)
1869 PASA Prevention of Anti-Social Activity Act
1870 PAT Profit After Tax
1871 PATA Pacific-Asia Travel Association
1872 PC Population Census
1873 PCA Post Clearance Audit
1874 PCARDB Primary Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank
1875 PCB Primary (urban) Co-operative Bank
1876 PCC Project Coordinating Committee
1877 PCI Pharmacy Council of India
1878 PCI Press Council of India
1879 PCPNDT Act Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act
1880 PCR Protection of Civil Rights
1881 PCS Provincial Civil Services
1882 PCS Public Civil Service; Punjab Civil Service
1883 PD Primary Deficit
1884 PDAI Primary Dealers Association of India
1885 PDD Project Design Document
1886 PDO Public Debt Office
1887 PDO-NDS Public Debt Office-cum-Negotiated Dealing System
1888 PDs Primary Dealers
1889 PEM Policy Exchange Mechanism
1890 PES Public Enterprises Survey
1891 PET Positron Emission Tomography (Scan Machine for patients)
1892 PF Provident Fund
1893 Pf Plasmodium falciparum
1894 PFI Population Foundation of India
1895 PG Post Graduate
1896 PGR Population Growth Rate
1897 PhD Doctor of Philosophy
1898 PHC Primary Health Centre
1899 PhD Doctor of Philosophy
1900 PHFI Public Health Foundation of India
1901 PHM Post Harvest Management
1902 PHRA Protection of Human Rights Act
1903 PIA Pakistan International Airlines
1904 PIB Press Information Bureau
1905 PIDS Philippine Institute for Development Studies
1906 PIL Public Interest Litigation
1907 PIN Code Postal Index Number Code
1908 PIO Persons of Indian Origin
1909 PITO Private Investment Trade Opportunities
1910 PIWP Policy Implementation and work Programme
1911 PLANTI Plant Quarantine and Training Institute
1912 PLF Plant Load Factor
1913 PLHIV People Living with HIV
1914 PLI Primary Lending Institution
1915 PLO Palestine Liberation Organisation
1916 PLOTE Peoples Liberation Organization of Tamil Elam
1917 PLWHA People Living with HIV/AIDS
1918 PM Post Meridiem; after-noon; also Postmaster; Prime Minister; post-mortem (after death)
1919 PMC Post Ministerial Conferences
1920 PMEAC Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council1920 PMEAC Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council
1921 PMF Para Military Forces of India
1922 PMG Postmaster General
1923 PMI Purchasing Managers' Index
1924 PML Pollution Monitoring Lab
1925 PMLA Prevention of Money Laundering Act
1926 PMO Prime Minister's Office
1927 PMPSU Poverty Monitoring and Policy Support Unit
1928 PMU Project Management Unit
1929 PN Participatory Note
1930 PNB Punjab National bank
1931 PO Principal Office
1932 PO Post Office; Postal Order
1933 POA Program of Action
1934 POATC Program of Action in Transportation and Communication
1935 POD Prevention of Deformity
1936 POES Polar Orbiting Environment Satellite
1937 POP Points of Presence
1938 POPs Persistent Organic Pollutants; Point of Purchase
1939 POTA Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act; Prevention of Terrorism Act
1940 POW Prisoner of War
1941 PP Public Prosecutor; Particular Person
1942 PPC Post Partum Centre
1943 PPC Pakistan Penal Code
1944 PNG Private Non Guaranteed
1945 PPG Public and Publicly Guaranteed
1946 PPP Public Private Partnership
1947 Pr SB Private Sector Bank
1948 PR Prevalence Rate
1949 PRA Pest Risk Analysis
1950 PRB Primary Revenue Balance
1951 PRESSEA Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources in Southeast Asia
1952 PRI Panchayati Raj Institution
1953 PRO Public Relations Officer
1954 PROMEEC Promotion of Energy Efficiency and Conservation
1955 PROSEA Plant Resources on Southeast Asia
1956 PS Post Scriptum; Post Script; written after
1957 PSA Priority Sector Advance
1958 PSAT Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test; Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test
1959 PSC Project Steering Committee
1960 PSC Public Service Commission
1961 PSE Public Sector Enterprises
1962 PSI Population Services International
1963 PSLCs Priority Sector Lending Certificates
1964 PSLV Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
1965 PSU Public Sector Unit
1966 PSU Public Sector Undertaking
1967 PTA Preferential Trading Arrangement; Preferential Trade Area
1968 PTI Press Trust of India
1969 PTO Please Turn Over; Privilege Ticket Order
1970 PTOMS Post Tsunami Operational Management Structure
1971 Pu SB Public Sector Bank
1972 PUC Pre-University College
1973 PUC Paid Up Capital
1974 PUFA Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids
1975 PURA Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas
1976 PVC Poly Vinyl Chloride / Param Vir Chakra
1977 PVSM Param Vishisht Sewa Medal
1978 PWD Psychological Warfare Division
1979 PWD Public Works Department
1980 PWG People’s War Group
1981 QASAF Quality Assurance Systems for ASEAN Fruits1981 QASAF Quality Assurance Systems for ASEAN Fruits
1982 QECs Quality Education Centers
1983 QED Quod Erat Demonstrandum (Which was to be proved)
1984 QEF Quod Erat Faciendum (Which was to be done)
1985 QEI Quod Erat Inveniendum (Which was to be found)
1986 QIP Quality Improvement Program; Qualified Institutional Placement
1987 QIS Quantitative Impact Study; Quality Improvements in Schools
1988 QMG Quarter Master General
1989 QoC Quality of Care
1990 QR Quantitative Restriction
1991 QRR Quick Review Report
1992 QRs Quantitative Restrictions
1993 R & D Research and Development
1994 RADAR Radio Angle Direction and Range
1995 RAF Rapid Action Force
1996 RAM Random Access Memory
1997 RAW Research and Analysis Wing
1998 RBAAIJV Revised Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial joint Ventures
1999 RBD Registration of Birth and Death
2000 RBI Reserve Bank of India
2001 RCA Rent Control Act
2002 RCC Reinforced Concrete Cement
2003 RCCRF Regionalization of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries
2004 RCH Reproductive and Child Health
2005 RCICM Regional Training Course on Integrated COastal Management
2006 RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police
2007 RCP Research Priorities Committee
2008 RD Revenue Deficit
2009 RDA Recommended Daily intake Allowance
2010 RDBMS Relational Database Management System
2011 RDF Rapid Development Force
2012 RDS Radio Data Servicing
2013 RUDSET Rural Development and Self Employment Training
2014 RDSS Radio Determination Satellite Service
2015 RDX Research Developed Explosive
2016 RE Revenue Expenditure
2017 REACH Rehabilitate, Educate and Support Street Children
2018 REC Rural Electrification Corporation
2019 REER Real Effective Exchange Rate
2020 RETA Regional Technical Assistance
2021 RETA PMU RETA's Project Management Unit
2022 RFC Residents Foreign Currency
2023 RFD Results Framework Document (for Ministry of Labour & Employment)
2024 RFP Request for Proposal
2025 RFQ Request for Qualification
2026 RGI Registrar General of India
2027 RGGVY Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana
2028 RHAP Regional Haze Action Plan
2029 RHS Rural Health Statistics
2030 RIB Resurgent India Bonds
2031 RIC Rural Industrial Cluster Schemes
2032 RIDF Rural Infrastructure Development Fund
2033 RIHS Revised Integrated Housing Scheme
2034 RIM Research In Motion
2035 RIMC Rashtriya Indian Military College
2036 RKBY Rashtriya Krishi Bima Yojana
2037 RKVY Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana
2038 RLA Recoveries of Loans & Advances
2039 RLC Repayment of Loans to Centre
2040 RLEGP Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme
2041 RLO Returned Letter Office
2042 RLTRI Regional Leprosy Training & Research Institute2042 RLTRI Regional Leprosy Training & Research Institute
2043 RLV Reusable Launch Vehicle
2044 RMB Renminbi (Chinese)
2045 RMK Rashtriya Mahila Kosh
2046 RMNCH Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
2047 RMP Rural Medical Practitioner
2048 RMS Railway Mail Service
2049 RMSA Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan
2050 RNA Ribo Nucleic Acid
2051 RNBC Residuary Non-Banking Companies
2052 RNTCP Revised National TB Control Programme
2053 RO Regional Office
2054 ROAA Return On Average Assets
2055 RoCs Registrars of Companies
2056 ROD Regional Ocean Dynamics
2057 ROK Republic of Korea
2058 ROO Rules of Origin
2059 RPA Rupee Payment Area
2060 RPCD Rural Planning and Credit Department, RBI
2061 RPM Revolutions Per Minute
2062 RPO Recruitment Process Outsourcing; Regional Passport Officer
2063 RPS Regional Partnership Scheme
2064 RR Revenue Receipts
2065 RRA Race Relations Act
2066 RRB Regional Rural Bank
2067 RRFAMS Recruitment Rules formation, Amendment & Monitoring System
2068 RRPI Rural Retail Price Index
2069 RSC Regional Sports Centre
2070 RSS Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
2071 RSVP Repondez s’il vous plait (Fr.)- reply, if you please
2072 RTAC Rural Technology Applications Centre
2073 RTB Radio Television Brunei
2074 RTC Road Transport Corporation
2075 RTD Research and Technological Development
2076 RTE Right To Education
2077 RTGS Real Time Gross Settlement
2078 RTI Right To Information
2079 RTI Reproductive Tract Infection
2080 RTO Regional Transport Officer
2081 RTP Regional Training Programme
2082 RTP Reserve Tranche Position
2083 RUF Revolving Underwriting Facility
2084 RWA Risk Weighted Asset
2085 S&T Science and Technology
2086 SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation
2087 SAAS Software As A Service
2088 SAC Science Advisory Council
2089 SAC Space Application Centre
2090 SAD Shiromani Akali Dal
2091 SAEI Southeast Asian Environment Initiative
2092 SAFTA South Asian Free Trade Agreement; South Asian Free Trade Area
2093 SAHR South Asians for Human Rights
2094 SAI Sports Authority of India
2095 SAID Social Action for Integrated Development (NGO in AP)
2096 SAIL Steel Authority of India Limited
2097 SAM Social Accounting Matrix
2098 SAPCROM South Asian Commission for the Rights of Minorities
2099 SAPTA South Asian Preferential Trade Arrangement
2100 SAPTA SAARC Preferential Trading Agreement
2101 SAR Search and Rescue
2102 SARD Society for All Round Development
2103 SAREX Search and Rescue Exercise2103 SAREX Search and Rescue Exercise
2104 SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
2105 SAS Statistical Analysis System
2106 SATNAV Satellite Navigation (Initiative)
2107 SAVE SAARC Audio Visual Exchange
2108 SAWNET South Asian Women’s NETwork
2109 SBI State Bank of India
2110 SC Security Council; Supreme Court; Scheduled Caste
2111 SCA State Channelising Agency
2112 SCARDBs State Co-operative Agricultural and Rural Development Banks
2113 SCB Sub-Committee on Biotechnology
2114 SCB Scheduled Commercial Bank
2115 SCB State Cooperative Bank
2116 SCB Scheduled Commercial Bank
2117 SCF Special Cooperation Fund
2118 SCFST Sub-Committee on Food Science and Technology
2119 SCI Shipping Corporation of India
2120 SCIRD Sub-Committee on Science and Technology Infrastructure and Resources Development
2121 SCMG Sub-Committee on Meteorology and geophysics
2122 SCMIT Sub-Committee on Microelectronics and Information Technology
2123 SCMS Sub-Committee on Marine Science
2124 SCMST Sub-Committee on Materials Science and Technology
2125 SCNCER Sub-Committee on Non-Conventional Energy Research
2126 SCO Shanghai Co-operation Organisation
2127 SCOPE Standing Conference on Public Enterprises
2128 SCOT Sub-Committee on Tourism
2129 SCRA Special Class Railway Apprentice
2130 SCRBx State Crime Records Bureaux
2131 SCS Size Class Strata
2132 SCSTA Sub-Committee on Space Technology Application
2133 SDDS Special Data Dissemination Standards
2134 SDI Selective Dissemination of Information
2135 SDI Social Development Index
2136 SDMC School Development Management Committees
2137 SDO Sub-Divisional Officer
2138 SDN Software Defined Networking
2139 SDP State Domestic Product
2140 SDR Special Drawing Rights (created by the World Bank)
2141 SDDS Special Data Dissemination Standards
2142 SEA HDR Southeast Asian Human Development Report
2143 SEAFDEC South East Asia Fisheries Development Centre
2144 SEAMEO Southeast Asian Ministers on education Organization
2145 SEANWFZ Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapons Free Zone
2146 SEBC Social and Educationally Backward Classes
2147 SEBI Securities and Exchange Board of India
2148 SEBs State Electricity Boards
2149 SEMIS Secondary Education Management Information System
2150 SEOM Senior Economic Officials Meeting
2151 SES Selected Education Statistics
2152 SEWA Self Employed Women’s Association
2153 SFC State Financial Corporation
2154 SFC Strategic Forces Command
2155 SFM Sustainable Forest Management
2156 SGL Subsidiary General Ledger
2157 SGPC Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee
2158 SGSY Swarnajayanthi Gram Swarrojgar Yojana
2159 SHAR Shri Harikota Range
2160 SHC Spontaneous Human Combustion
2161 SHGs Self-Help Groups
2162 SHO Station House Officer
2163 SIAP Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific
2164 SIDBI Small Industries Development Bank of India
2165 SIDC State Industrial Development Corporation
2166 SIGINT Signals Intelligence
2167 SIPRI Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
2168 SIS Secret Intelligence Service (U.K)
2169 SI-SPA Systems Improvement Scheme under Special Project Agriculture
2170 SIT Special Investigation Team
2171 SITA Suppression of .Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act2171 SITA Suppression of .Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act
2172 SITE Satellite Instructional Television Experiment
2173 SJSRY Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojana
2174 SKRL Singapore-Kunming Rail Link
2175 SL Sensitive List
2176 SLBC State Level Bankers Committee
2177 SLFP Sri Lanka Freedom Party
2178 SLL Special and Local Laws
2179 SLOA Suplementary Letters of Agreement
2180 SLOM Senior Labour Officials Meeting
2181 SLR Statutory Liquidity Ratio
2182 SLRS Scheme for Liberation & Rehabilitation of Scavangers
2183 SLV Satellite Launch Vehicle
2184 SMART Synthetics Monitoring: Analyses, Reporting and Trends (Programme against Drug abuse)
2185 SMCE Small and Medium-size Cultural Enterprise and Industry
2186 SMEs Small and Medium enterprises
2187 SMEWG SMEs Agencies Working Group
2188 SMG Standing Monitoring Group
2189 SMS Short Messaging Service; Subscriber Management System
2190 SNA System of National Accounts
2191 SNCU Special Newborn Care Unit
2192 SoE State of the Environment
2193 SoER State of the Environment Report
2194 SOM Senior Officials Meeting
2195 SOME Senior Officials Meeting on Energy
2196 SOMEC Senior Officials Meeting on Energy Cooperation
2197 SOME-METI Senior Officials Meeting on Energy - Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
2198 SOMHD Senior Officials Meeting on Health Development
2199 SOM-I Senior Officials Meeting on Investment
2200 SOMRDPE Senior Officials Meeting on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication
2201 SOMSWD Senior Officials Meeting Social Welfare and Development
2202 SOMTC Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime
2203 SOMTI Senior Officials Meeting on Trade and Investment
2204 SOMY Senior Officials Meeting on Youth
2205 SOS Save Our Souls—distress signal
2206 SPAE Strategic Plan of Action and the Environment
2207 SPC South Pacific Commission
2208 SPCA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals
2209 SPF South Pacific Forum
2210 SPG Special Protection Group
2211 SPICMC Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical music and culture
2212 SPIN Software Process Improvement Networks
2213 SPQEM Scheme for Providing Quality Education in Madarsas
2214 SPR Slide Positivity Rate
2215 SPS Sanitary and Phytosanitary
2216 SPSC State Public Service Commission
2217 SPV Solar Photo Voltaic
2218 SQUID Super-conducting Quantum Interference Device
2219 SRC Socio Religious Category
2220 SRCR Sub-Regional Climate Review
2221 SRE Space Capsule Recovery Experiment
2222 SRFA Sub-Regional Firefighting Arrangement
2223 SRMS Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers
2224 SRS Sample Registration System
2225 SRV Submarine Rescue Vessel
2226 SRWTO Small Road & Water Transport Operators
2227 SSA Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
2228 SSB Sashastra Seema Bal
2229 SSI Small Scale Industry
2230 SSN Social Safety Nets
2231 SSN Social Security Number
2232 SSRs Simple Sequence Repeats
2233 SSSBEs Small Scale Service & Business Enterprises
2234 ST Scheduled Tribe
2235 STARS Satellite Tracking and Ranging Station
2236 START Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
2237 STD Subscribers Trunk Dialing
2238 STD Sexually Transmitted Disease2238 STD Sexually Transmitted Disease
2239 STEP Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park
2240 STEP Support to Training and Employment Programme (for Women)
2241 STIs Sexually Transmitted Infections
2242 STOM Senior Transport Officials Meeting
2243 STPI Software Technology Parks of India
2244 STR Student Teacher Ratio
2245 STRIPS Separate Trading for Registered Interest and Principal of Securities
2246 STT Securities Transaction Tax
2247 STWs Skill Training Workshops
2248 SUA Suppression of Unlawful Acts
2249 SVO Support Voluntary Organization
2250 SVR Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki (Russian Foreign Intelligence Service)
2251 SVRS Sample Vital Registration System
2252 SWAN State Wide Area Network
2253 SWAPO South West African People’s Organisation
2254 SWG Second Working Group on Money Supply
2255 SWIFT Society for Worldwide Financial Telecommunications
2256 SWRD Solomon West Ridgeway Dias (Bandaranaike)
2257 TA Travelling Allowance; Territorial Army
2258 TAAI Travel Agents Association of India
2259 TAC Treaty of Amity and Cooperation
2260 TACDE Tactics and Air Combat Development Establishment
2261 TADA Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act
2262 TADA Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act
2263 TAGP Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline Project
2264 TAPI Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India
2265 TAPS Tarapur Atomic Power Station
2266 TASIS Taqwaa Advisory and Shariah Investment Solutions Pvt. Ltd
2267 TB Tuberculosis
2268 TBA Trained Birth Attendant
2269 TBs Treasury Bills
2270 TBMs Tunnel Boring Machines
2271 TC Temporary Change
2272 TCDC Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries
2273 TCM Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (of Spacecraft)
2274 TCP Transmission Control Protocol
2275 TDC Transport Development Council
2276 TDS Tax Deduction at Source
2277 TDSAT Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal
2278 TDU Technology Development Unit
2279 TECC Tactical Emergency Combat Care
2280 TEDI Trade Electronic Data Interchange
2281 TEL Temporary Exclusion List
2282 TELCO Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company
2283 TELEX Teleprinter Exchange
2284 TELMIN Telecommunication Ministers Meeting
2285 TELSOM Telecommunication Senior Officials Meeting
2286 TEMIC Telecommunications Executive Management Institute
2287 TERLS Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station
2288 TEQIP Technol
2289 TFGR Transport Facilitation of Goods Roadmap
2290 TFR Total Fertility Rate
2291 TIA Transient Ischemic Attack
2292 TIFA Trade and Investment Framework Agreement
2293 TIFAC Technology Information Forecasting & Assessment Council
2294 TIFR Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
2295 TIN Tax Information Network
2296 TINXSYS Tax Information Exchange System
2297 TIPP Trade and Investment Promotion Programme
2298 TISCO Tata Iron and Steel Company
2299 TISI Thai Industrial Standard Institute
2300 TLDs Top-Level Domains
2301 TMC Terrain Mapping Camera
2302 TMO Telegraphic Money Order
2303 TMS Theeredesa Mahila Society
2304 TNC Trade Negotiating Committee
2305 TNG Trade Negotiating Group2305 TNG Trade Negotiating Group
2306 TNSM Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi
2307 TNT Tri-nitro-toluene (high explosive)
2308 TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language
2309 TOR Terms of Reference
2310 TOT Training of Trainers
2311 TPAS Technology Promotion and Assistance Services
2312 TPDS Targeted Public Distribution System
2313 TPP 20-Point Programme
2314 TQMC Total Quality Management Control
2315 TRAI Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
2316 TREATI Trans-Regional EU-ASEAN Trade Initiative
2317 TRIMs Trade Related Investment Measures
2318 TRIPS Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights
2319 TROPMED Tropical Medicine and Public Health
2320 TRP Television Rating Points; Tax Return Preparer
2321 TRYSEM Training of Rural Youth for Self Employment
2322 TSC Total Sanitation Campaign
2323 TSGs Technical Support Groups
2324 TSWE Test of Standard Written English
2325 TT Tetanus Toxoid
2326 TT Telegraphic Transfer
2327 TTCB Transit Transport Coordinating Board
2328 TTE Travelling Ticket Examiner
2329 TTF Tourism Task Force
2330 TTFI Table Tennis Federation of India
2331 TTI Titanus Toxoid Injection
2332 TTP Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan
2333 TUF Technology Upgradation Fund
2334 TULF Tamil United Liberation Front
2335 TWA Trans World Airlines (USA)
2336 TWG1 Technical Working Group on Standards and Conformance
2337 TWG2 Technical Working Group on Conformity Assessment
2338 TWG3 Technical Working Group on Testing, Calibration and Laboratory Accreditation
2339 U5MR Under Five Mortality Rate
2340 UA Urban Agglomeration
2341 UAE United Arab Emirates
2342 UAP Unprocessed Agricultural Products
2343 UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
2344 UBB Uniform Balance Book
2345 UBCC UIDAI Biometrics Centre of Competence
2346 UBD Urban Banks Department
2347 UCB Urban Cooperative Bank
2348 UCN Uniform Code Number
2349 UCT Unconditional Cash Transfer
2350 UDC Upper Division Clerk
2351 UDHR United Declaration for Human Rights
2352 UEE Universal Elementary Education
2353 UF United Front
2354 UFO Unidentified Flying Object
2355 UG Under Graduate
2356 UGC University Grants Commission
2357 UHT Ultra High Temperature
2358 UIDAI Unique Identification Authority of India
2359 UIDSSMT Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme of Small and Medium Towns
2360 UIP Universal Immunization Programme
2361 ULFA United Liberation Front of Assam
2362 UMPP Ultra Mega Power Project
2363 UN United Nations
2364 UNASUR Union of South American Nations (Spanish: Unión de Naciones Suramericanas)
2365 UNCHR United Nations Commission on Human Rights
2366 UNCSD United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
2367 UNDCP United Nations International Drug Control Programme
2368 UNDESA United Nations Departments for Economic and Social Affairs
2369 UNDP United Nations Development Programme
2370 UNEF United Nations Emergency Force
2371 UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
2372 UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization2372 UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
2373 UNFPA United Nations Fund for Population Activities
2374 UNHCR United Nations High Commission for Refugees
2375 UNHRC United Nations Human Rights Commission
2376 UNI United News of India
2377 UNICEF United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
2378 UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organisation
2379 UNO United Nations Organisation
2380 UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
2381 UNP United National Party
2382 UNRRA United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
2383 UNSD United Nations Statistics Division
2384 UNTAC United Nations Transitional Authority for Cambodia
2385 UNTAET United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor
2386 UP Uttar Pradesh
2387 UPA United Progressive Alliance
2388 UPFA United People’s Freedom Alliance
2389 UPS Uninterrupted Power Supply
2390 UPSC Union Public Service Commission
2391 UPTN Universal Personal Telephone Number
2392 UR Unemployment Rate
2393 URP Uniform Recall Period
2394 URP Uniform Reference Period
2395 USA United States of America
2396 US-AEP United States Asian Environmental Partnership
2397 USCIRF US Commission for International Religious Freedom
2398 USD US Dollars
2399 USE Universalisation of Secondary Education
2400 US-EIP United States Environmental Improvement Programme
2401 USEPA United States Environmental Protection Agency
2402 USIP United States Institute of Peace
2403 USIS United States Information Service
2404 USPTO US Patent and Trademark Office
2405 USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
2406 USTR United States Trade Representative
2407 UT Union Territory
2408 UTHR University Teachers for Human Rights
2409 UTI Unit Trust of India
2410 UVN Urja Vikas Nigam
2411 VA Verbal Autopsy
2412 VAC Visit ASEAN Campaign
2413 VALENTE ASEAN Energy Database, Valorization of Energy Technology
2414 VAP Vientiane Action Programme
2415 VAT Value Added Tax
2416 VAWA Violence Against Women Act (of 1994 is a United States federal law)
2417 VAY Visit ASEAN Millenium Year
2418 VC Vice-Chancellor; Vice Counsel; Victoria Cross; Vir Chakra; Venture Capital
2419 VDA Variable Dearness Allowance
2420 VDIS Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme
2421 VET Vocation Education and Training
2422 VHP Vishwa Hindu Parishad
2423 VHRR Very High Resolution Radiometer
2424 VIIRS Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite
2425 VIP Very Important Person
2426 VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
2427 VKCs Village Knowledge Centres
2428 VLA Very Large Array VLA
2429 VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol
2430 VPA Vested Property AI Amnesty International
2431 VPN Virtual Private Network
2432 VPP Value Payable Post
2433 VRS Voluntary Retirement Scheme
2434 VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminals
2435 VSNL Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited
2436 VSSC Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
2437 VTIP Vocational Training Improvement Project
2438 WADA World Anti-Doping Agency
2439 WAMY World Assembly of Muslim Youth2439 WAMY World Assembly of Muslim Youth
2440 WAP Wireless Application Protocol
2441 WAVE Wireless Access for Virtual Enterprise
2442 WBSCTE West Bengal State Council of Technical Education
2443 WCAIA Working Committee on ASEAN Investment Area
2444 WCT WIPO Copyright Treaties
2445 WDF Wasteland Development Force
2446 WEC West-East Corridor
2447 WEF World Economic Forum
2448 WEO World Economic Outlook
2449 WFP World Food Programme
2450 WFTU World Federation of Trade Unions
2451 WGABI Working Group on Agribusiness
2452 WGASME Working Group on ASEAN Seas and Marine Environment
2453 WGEE Working Group on Environmental Economics
2454 WGEIPAE Working Group on Environmental Information, Public Awareness and Education
2455 WGEM Working Group on Environmental Management
2456 WGFDIS Working Group on Foreign Direct Investment Statistics
2457 WGIC Working Group on Industrial Cooperation
2458 WGIG Working Group on Internet Governance
2459 WGIPC Working Group on Intelectual Property Cooperation
2460 WGL Working Group on Livestock
2461 WGMS Working Group on Money Supply
2462 WGNC Working Group on Nature Conservation
2463 WGTEC Working Group on Trade and Economic
2464 WGTP Working Group on Transboundary Pollution
2465 WHC World Heritage Committee
2466 WHO World Health Organisation
2467 WILL Wireless in Local Loop
2468 WISE Water Infrastructure Supply Efficiency
2469 WITS Worldwide Incidents Tracking System
2470 WIPO World Intellectual Property Organisation
2471 WLL Wireless in Local Loop
2472 WMA World Medical Association
2473 WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction
2474 WMO World Meteorological Organisation
2475 WNN Women News Network
2476 WNTA Wada Na Todo Abhiyan
2477 WOS Wholly Owned Subsidiary
2478 WPI Wholesale Price Index
2479 WPPT WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
2480 WPR Worker Participation Rate/Ratio
2481 WR Western Railway
2482 WRS World Road Statistics
2483 WSRT Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
2484 WSS Weekly Statistical Supplement
2485 WSSD World Summit on Sustainable Development
2486 WTM World Travel Mart
2487 WTO World Trade Organisation (previously called GATT); World Tourism Organisation
2488 WWF World Wild Life Fund
2489 WWTTT-CPD Waste Water Treatment Technology Transfer and Cleaner Production Demonstration
2490 WWW World Wide Web
2491 XLRI Xavier Labour Relations Institute
2492 XML eXtensible Markup Language
2493 YMCA Young Men’s Christian Association
2494 YTM Yield to Maturity
2495 YWCA Young Women’s Christian Association
2496 ZBB Zero Based Budgeting
2497 ZCCs Zonal Cultural Centres
2498 ZO Zonal Office
2499 ZOPFAN Zone of Peace Freedom and Neutrality
2500 ZSI Zoological Survey of India
http://www.asean.org/73.htm (ASEAN ABBREVIATIONS); 26-09-11.
http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Publications/PDFs/78941.pdf (RBI Abbreviations)
http://theonlinegk.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/important-abbreviation-india/ (Abbreviations – the on line gk)
http://uidai.gov.in/ (Unique Identification Authority of India)
http://www.competitionmaster.com/Category.aspx?ID=5f5fb99c-2a50-4910-a727-46b6a85ba308
Source:
http://www.competitionmaster.com/Category.aspx?ID=5f5fb99c-2a50-4910-a727-46b6a85ba308
http://www.peopleswatch.org/dm-documents/HRD/NGO%20Report_Paris%20Principles_NHRC_India.pdf
ACRONYMS IDF - GLOBAL DIABETES PLAN 2011-2021
finmin.nic.in/reports/WhitePaper_BackMoney2012.pdf
Sachar Report, etc.
http://rural.nic.in/sites/downloads/annual-report/anualreport0708_eng.pdf
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