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 39 BIFR Board of Industrial Finance and Reconstruction (Formerly Industrial Reconstruction Finance Board) 40 BIMSTEC Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand Economic 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 63 COFEPOSA Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of 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 133 IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (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 138 ICICI Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India 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 182 IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural 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 Gun 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 197 MASER Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation 198 MBA Master of Business Administration 199 MBBS Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery 200 MBT Main Battle Tank 201 MCA Monetary Compensatory Allowance / Master of Computer 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 312 SPICMC Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical music and 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 333 UNASUR Union of South American Nations (Spanish: Unión de 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
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