Sr. No.

Abbreviation Stands For

1 AAFI Amateur Athletics Federation of India

2 AAPSO Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation

3 AASU All Assam Students Union

4 ABM Anti-Ballistic Missile

5 AC Alternate Current OR Air Conditioner

6 ACC Ancillary Cadet Core

7 AD Ano Domini (After the birth of Jesus)

8 ADB Asian Development Bank.

9 AERE Atomic Energy Research Establishment

10 AGOC Asian Games Organisation Committee

11 AICC All India Congress Committee

12 AICTE All India Council of Technical Education

13 AIDS Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome

14 AIFE All India Football Federation

15 AIIMS All India Institute of Medical Sciences

16 AIL Aeronautics India Limited

17 AIMPLB All India Muslim Personal Law Board

18 AIR All India Radio (Broadcasting)

19 AITUE All India Trade Union Congress

20 AM Anti Meridian (Before Noon)

21 ANC African National Congress

22 APEC Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

23 APSC Army Postal Services Core

24 ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nations

25 ASLV Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle

26 ASI Archaeological Survey of India

27 ASSOCHAM Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (India)

28 ASWAC Airborne Surveillance Warning and Control

29 ATS Anti-Tetanus Serum

30 BAMS Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery

31 BARC Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

32 BBC British Broadcasting Corporation

33 BC Before Christ (Before the birth of Jesus)

34 BCG Bacillus Calmette Guerin (Anti TB Vaccine)

35 BCCI Board of Control for Cricket in India

36 BEL Bharat Electronics Limited

37 BENELUX Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg

38 BHEL Bharat Heavy Electronics Limited

Board of Industrial Finance and Reconstruction (Formerly

39 BIFR
Industrial Reconstruction Finance Board)

Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand Economic

40 BIMSTEC
Cooperation

41 BIS Bureau of Indian Standards

42 B Pharma Bachelor of Pharmacy

43 BSF Border Security Force

44 CAD Command Area Development

45 CAG Comptroller and Auditor General

46 CARE Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere

47 CASE Commission for Alternative Sources of Energy

48 CBI Central Bureau of Investigation

49 CBSE Central. Board of Secondary Education

50 CCEA Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs

51 CCS Cabinet Committee on Security

52 C-DAC Centre For Development of Advance Computing

53 CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

54 CDRI Central Drug Research Institute

55 CHOGM Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting

56 CID Criminal Investigation Department

57 CIS Commonwealth of Independent States

58 CISF Central Industrial Security Force

59 CITU Centre of Indian Trade Unions

60 CLAT Common Law Admission Test (Started May 2008)

61 CNG Compressed Natural Gas

62 COD Central Ordnance Depot

Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of

63 COFEPOSA
Smuggling Act

64 CPO Central Passport Organisation

65 CPRI Central Power Research Institute

66 CRPF Central Reserve Police Force

67 CRR Cash Reserve Ratio

68 CSIR Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

69 CSO Central Statistical Organisation

70 CTS Computerised Tomography Scanner

71 CVC Central Vigilance Commission

72 DDT Dichloro Diphenyle Tri-chloroethane

73 DFDR 'Digital Flight Data Recorder (Black box)'

74 DIG Deputy Inspector General

75 D. Lit. Doctor of Literature

76 DM District Magistrate

77 DMK Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

78 DNA Di-oxyribo-Nucleic Acid

79 DPAP 'Drought Prone Area Programme

80 DPC Dabhol Power Company

82 DRDO Defence Research and Development Organisation

83 DTH Direct to Home

84 DVD Digital Versatile Disk

85 EAS Employment Assurance Scheme

86 ECD European Central Bank

87 ECG Electro Cardiogram

88 EEC European Economic Community

89 EEG Electro Encephalogram

90 ELISA Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay

91 EMF Electromotive Force

92 EPABX Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange

93 EPZ Export Processing Zone

94 ERDA Energy Research and Development Administration

95 ESMA Essential Services Maintenance Act

96 EVM Electronic Voting Machine

97 EXIM Bank Export-Import Bank of India

98 FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation

99 FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA)

100 FBTR Fast Breeder Test Reactor

101 FCI Food Corporation of India / Fertilizer Corporation of India

102 FDR Flight Data Recorder (Black Box)

103 FERA Foreign Exchange Regulation Act

104 FEMA Foreign Exchange Management Act

105 FICCI Federation of India Chambers of Commerce and Industry

106 FIPB Foreign Investment Promotion Board

107 FIR First Information Report

108 FRS Fellow of the Royal Society

109 FTII Films and Television Institute of India

110 FTZ Free Trade Zone

111 GAIL Gas Authority of India Limited

112 GATT General Agreement on Tariff and Trade

113 GIC General Insurance Corporation

114 GMT Greenwich Mean Time

115 GNLF Gorkha National Liberation Front

116 GNP Gross National Product

117 GPF General Provident Fund

118 GPO General Post Office

119 GPS Global Positioning System

120 GSI Geological Survey of India

121 HAC Hindustan Aluminium Corporation

122 HAL Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

123 HCF Highest Common Factor

124 HDFC Housing Development Finance Corporation

125 HIV Human Immuno-deficiency Virus

126 HMT Hindustan Machine Tools

127 HUDCO Housing and Urban Development Corporation

128 HYVS High Yield Variety Seeds

129 IAAI International Airport Authority of India

130 lAC Indian Airlines Corporation

131 IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

132 IARI Indian Agricultural Research Institute

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

133 IBRD
(World Bank)
134 ICAR Indian Council of Agricultural Research

135 ICBM Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile

136 ICC International Cricket Council

137 ICFTU International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India

138 ICICI
Limited

139 ICJ International Court of Justice

140 ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research

141 ICSI Indian Company Secretaries Institute

142 IDA International Development Agency

143 IDBI Industrial Development Bank of India

144 IDO International Defence Organisation

145 IDPL Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited

146 IFA Indian Football Association

147 IFCI Industrial Finance Corporation of India

148 IFFI International Film Festival of India

149 IFFCO Indian Farmers Fertilizers Cooperative

150 IFTU International Federation of Trade Unions

151 IIPA Indian Institute of Public Administration

152 IIS Indian Institute of Sciences

153 IISCO Indian Iron and Steel Company

154 IIT Indian Institute of Technology

155 ILO International Labour Organisation

156 IMA Indian Military Academy

157 IMF International Monetary Fund

158 INGCA Indira Gandhi Gallery for Culture and Art

159 INS Indian Naval Ship

160 INSAT Indian National Satellite

161 INTELSAT International Telecommunication Satellite

162 INTERPOL International Police Organisation

163 INTUC Indian National Trade Union Congress

164 IOC International Olympic Committee / Indian Oil Corporation

165 IPC Indian Penal Code

166 IPKF Indian Peace Keeping Force

167 IQ Intelligence Quotient

168 IRBM Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile

169 IRC International Red Cross

170 IRDA Insurance Regulatory Development Authority

171 IRDP Integrated Rural Development Programme

172 ISB Indian Standard Bureau

173 ISM Indian School of Mines

174 ISO International Organisation for Standardisation

175 ISP Internet Services Provider

176 ISRO Indian Space Research Organisation

177 IST Indian Standard Time

178 ITBP Indo-Tibet Border Police

179 ITDC Indian Tourism Development Corporation

180 ITPO Indian Trade Promotion Organisation

181 ITO International Trade Organisation

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural

182 IUCN
Resource

183 ITUC Indian Trade Union Congress

184 JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha

185 KG Kinder Garten

186 LASER Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission of Radiation

187 LIC Life Insurance Corporation of India

188 LLB Bachelor of Law

189 LLM Master of Law

190 LMG Light Machine Gum

191 LoC Line of Control (Pakistan)

192 LoAC Line of Actual Control (China)

193 LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas

194 LSD Lysergic acid diethylamide

195 LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam

196 MA Master of Arts

Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of

197 MASER
Radiation

198 MBA Master of Business Administration

199 MBBS Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

200 MBT Main Battle Tank

Monetary Compensatory Allowance / Master of Computer

201 MCA
Application

202 MCC Melbourne Cricket Club

203 MD Doctor of Medicine

204 MFN Most Favoured Nation

205 MI Military Intelligence

206 MISA Maintenance of Internal Security Act

207 MIT Mechachusates Institute of Technology (USA)

208 MLA Member of Legislative Assembly

209 MLC Member of Legislative Council

210 MNC Multi National Corporation

211 MRCP Member of Royal College of Physicians

212 MRCS Member of Royal College of Surgeons

213 MRTPC Monopoly and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission

214 MODVAT Modified Value Added Tax

215 NABARD National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development

216 NACO National AIDS Control Organisation

217 NAEP National Adult Education Programme

218 NAFED National Agricultural and Marketing Federation

219 NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement

220 NAPP Narora Atomic Power Plant

221 NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)

222 NASDAQ National Association of Security Dealer's Active Quotation

223 NASSCOM National Association of Software & Service Companies

224 NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

225 NCW National Commission for Women

226 NCCR National Council for Civil Right

227 NCERT National Council of Educational Research & Training

228 NDA National Defence Academy

229 NDDB National Dairy Development Board

230 NDF National Defence Fund.

231 NEERI National Environment Engineering Research Institute

232 NEFA North-East Frontier Agency

233 NEPA National Environment Protection Authority

234 NFDC National Film Development Corporation

235 NFL National Fertilizer Limited

236 NHRC National Human Rights Commission

237 NICO New Information and Communication Order

238 NIDC National Industrial Development Corporation

239 NIIT National Institute of Information Technology

240 NIMHANS National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences

241 NITIE National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering

242 NMDS National Missile Defence System (US)

243 NMEP National Malaria Eradication Programme

244 NOIDA New Okhla Industrial Development Authority

245 NPC National Productivity Council

246 NPP National Population Policy

247 NPT Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

248 NRDC National Research and Development Corporation

249 NREP National Rural Employment Programme

250 NRI Non Resident Indian

251 NSC National Security Council

252 NSSO National Sample Survey Organisation

253 NTC National Textile Corporation

254 NTPC National Thermal Power Corporation

255 OGL Open General Licence

256 OIL Oil India Limited

257 OK All Correct

258 ONGC Oil and Natural Gas Commission

259 OPEC Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries

260 PCI Press Council of India

261 PCS Provincial Civil Services

262 Ph. D Doctor of 'Philosophy

263 PIN Postal lndex Number

264 PLO Palestine Liberation Organisation

265 PM Post Meridian / Prime Minister

266 POTA Prevention of Terrorism Act

267 PSLV Polar. Satellite Launch Vehicle

268 PTI Press Trust of India

269 PRO Public Relations Officer

270 PTO Please Turn Over

271 PVC Poly Vinyl Chloride / Paramvir Chakra

272 PVSM Param Vishisht Seva Medal

273 PWD Public Work's Department

274 PWG People's War Group

275 QED Quod Erat Demonstrandum (Which was to be proved)

276 QEF Quod Erat Faciendum (Which was to be done)

277 QEI Quod Erat Inveniendum (Which was to be found)

278 QMG Quarter Master General

279 RADAR Radio Angle Direction and Range

280 RAW Research and Analysis Wing

281 R&D Research and Development

282 RBI Reserve Bank of India

283 RCC Reinforced Cement Concrete

284 RDX Research Developed Explosive

285 RIMC Rashtriya Indian Military College

286 RMS Railway Mail Service

287 RLEGP Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme

288 RNA Ribonucleic Acid

289 RPM Revolutions Per Minute

290 RSS Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

291 RTO Regional Transport Officer

292 SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

293 SAC Space Application Centre

294 SAFTA South Asian Free Trade Agreement

295 SAI Sports Authority of India

296 SAIL Steel Authority of India Limited

297 SAPTA South Asian Preferential Trade Arrangement

298 SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

299 SC Security Council/Supreme Court

300 SCI Shipping Corporation of India

301 SCOPE Standing Conference of Public Enterprises

302 SCRA Special Class Railway Apprentice

303 SDR Special Drawing Rights

304 SEBI Security Exchange Board of India

305 SGPC Siromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee

306 SHAR Shri Harikota Range

307 SIDBI Small Industries Development Bank of India

308 SIS Secret Intelligence Service (U.K)

309 SITA Suppression of .Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act

310 SLV Satellite Launch Vehicle

311 SPCA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals

Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical music and

312 SPICMC
culture

313 STARS Satellite Tracking and Ranging Station

314 STD Subscribers Trunk Dialing

315 STPI Software Technology Parks of India

316 SWAPO South West African People's Organisation

317 TA Travelling Aliowance / Territorial Anmy

318 TELCO Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company

319 TELEX Teleprinter Exchange

320 TISCO Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited

321 TNT Tri-nitro-toluene

322 TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language

323 TRAI Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

324 TRIPS Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights

325 TTE Travelling Ticket Examiner

326 TTFI Table Tennis Federation of India

327 TWA Trans World Airlines (USA)

328 UDC Upper Division Clerk

329 UFO Unidentified Flying Object

330 UGC University Grants Commission

331 UHT Ultra High Temperature

332 ULFA United Liberation Front of Assam

Union of South American Nations (Spanish: Unión de

333 UNASUR
Naciones Suramericanas)

334 UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

335 UNDP United Nations Development Programme

336 UNEF United Nations Emergency Force

337 UNEP United Nations Environment Programme

338 UNESCO United Nations Economic Social and Cultural Organisation

339 UNFPA United Nations for Population Activities

340 UNHCR United Nations High Commission for Refugees

341 UNI United News of India

342 UNICEF United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund

343 UNO United Nations Organisation

344 UPS Uninterrupted Power Supply

345 UPSC Union Public Service Commission

346 USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republic

347 UTI Unit Trust of India

348 VAT Value Added Tax

349 VDIS Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme

350 VC Vice-Chancellor / Victoria Cross

351 VIP Very Important Person

352 VPP Value Payable Post

353 VRS Voluntary Retirement Scheme

354 VSNL Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited

355 VSSC Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

356 WEF World Economic Forum

357 WHO World Health Organisation

358 WILL Wireless in Local Loop

359 WMO World Meteorological Organisation

360 WWF World Wild Life Fund

361 WPI Wholesale Price Index

362 WTO World Trade Organisation

363 WWF World Wild Life Fund for Nature

364 WWW World Wide Web

365 YMCA Young Men's Christians Association

366 YWCA Young Women's Christians Association

367 ZBB Zero Based Budgeting

368 ZSI Zoological Survey of India