Abbreviations

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 7
7 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 8
5 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