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ABBREVIATIONS
AAI
AAPs
ACRS
ADB
ADR
AGMARK
AHT
AIMO
AITUC
ATTWF
AMCs
APC
APDRP
Airport Authority of India
Annual Action Plans
Agricultural Credit Review Committee
Asian Development Bank
American Depository Receipts
Agricultural Marketing Department
Agricultural Holdings Tax
All-India Manufacturers Organisation
All-India Trade Union Congress
All-India Textile Workers' Federation
Asset Management Companies
Agricultural Prices Commission
Accelerated Power Development and
Reform Programme
APDRP
Accelerated Power Development and
Reform Programme
APL
Above the Poverty Line
APM
Administered Pricing Mechanism
APR
Administered Pricing Regime
ARCI
Agricultural Refinance Corporation of
India
ARDC
Agricultural Refinance Development
Corporation
ARDC
Agricultural Refinance Development
Corporation
ARF
Assets Reconstruction Fund
ARM
Additional Resource Mobilisation
ARS
Assets Responsibility System
ASSOCH A M Associated Chamber of Commerce and
Industry
ATC
Agreement on Textiles and Clothing
ATM
Automatic Teller Machines
BCR
Balance from Current Revenues
BFAD
Brackish Water Fish Farmers'
Development Agencies
HI IK
Board of Industrial and Financial
Reconstruction
BIMARU
States Bihar, Madhya Pradesh,
Rajasthan and U.P.
BIS
Bank of International Settlement
BMS
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh
BN
Bharat Nirman
BOL
Build-Own-Lease
BOOS
Build-Own - Operate System
BOP
Balance of Payment
BOT
BPE
BPL
BSE
BSNL
CAC
CACP
CAD
CADP
CAG
CAGR
CARC
CARDBs
CARE
CAS
CBR
CCA
CCBs
CCFI
CCI
CCI
CCI
CCS
CDS
CGS
CHV
CD
CIL
CIRM
CIS
CITU
CKD
CMA
CMIE
CMP
CNC
COFEPOSA
COPU
1028
Build-Operate and Transfer System
Bureau of Public Enterprises
Below the Poverty Line
Bombay Stock Exchange
Bharat Sanchar Nigarm Ltd.
Capital Account Convertibility
Commission for Agricultural Costs and
Prices
Command Area Development/Current
Account Deficit
Command Area Development
Programme
Comptroller and Auditor General
Compound Average Growth Rate
Congress Agrarian Reforms Committee
Cooperative Agricultural and Rural
Development Banks
Co-operative for American Relief
Everywhere
Credit Authorisation Scheme
Crude Birth Rate
Culturable Command Area
Central Cooperative Banks
Cabinet Committee on Foreign
Investment
Communications Commission of India
Competition Commission of India
Controller of Capital Issues
Cash Compensatory Support
Current Daily Status
Credit Guarantee Scheme
Community Health Volunteer
Confederation of Indian Industry
Coal India Ltd.
Central Industrial Relations Machinery
Commonwealth of Independent States
Centre of Indian Trade Unions
Completely Knocked down
Credit Monitoring Arrangement
Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy
Coommon Minimum Programme
Computer Numerically Controlled
Conservation of Foreign Exchange and
Prevention of Smuggling Activities
Committee on Public Undertakings
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ABBREVIATIONS
COR
CPI
CPI
CPIAL
CPDW
CPINM
CPR
CPSEs
CPSU
CRAR
CRISIL
CRR
CSEAs
CSEPs
CSF
CSIR
CSO
CST
CTM
CWC
DCPs
DDP
DFH
DFIs
DGCA
DGCI&S
DGET
DGSD
DIC
DICGC
DIR
DIR
DOT
DRAP
DRDAs
DRI
DTEC
DTL
EAS
ECB
Capital-Output Ratio
Consumer Price Index
Corruption Perception Index
Consumer Price Index for Agricultural
Labourers
Consumer Price Index for Industrial
Workers
Consumer Price Index for Non-manual
Employees
Couple Protection Rate
Central Public Sector Enterprises
Central Public Sector Undertaking
Capital to Risk Assets Ratio
Credit Rating Information Services of
India Ltd.
Cash Reserve Requirements
Cluster Small Enterprise Associations
Cluster Small Enterprise Associations
Consolodated Sinking Fund
Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research
Central Statistical Organisation
Central Sales Tax
Cotton Technology Mission
Central Warehousing Corporation
District Credit Plans
Desert Development Programme
Discount and Finance House of India
Ltd.
Development Financial Institutions
Director-General of Civil Aviation
Directorate General of Commercial
Intelligence and Statistics
Directorate General of Employment
and Training
Director-General of Supplies and
Disposals
District Industries Centre
Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee
Corporation
Defence of India Rules
Differential Interest Rate
Department of Electronics
Drought Prone Area Programme
District Rural Development Agencies
Differential Rate of Interest
Direct Taxes Enquiry Committee
Demand and Time Liabilities
Employment Assurance Scheme
External Commercial Borrowing
ECM
EDP
EEC
EFC
EFTA
EGS
EOUs
EPCG
EPF
EPZs
ERC
ESAF
ESCAP
EWS
EXIM Bank
EXIM Policy
FAO
FATF
FCCBs
FCDs
FCI
FCNR(B)
FCRCs
FDI
FECs
FEMA
FER
FERA
FFDAs
FFW
FIB
FICCI
FDA
FIIs
FIPB
FIPC
FOGS
FRBM
FTZ
FWP
GATT
GCA
European Common Market
Entrepreneurship Development
Programme
European Economic Community
Eleventh Finance Commission
European Free Trade Area
Employment Guarantee Scheme
Export Oriented Units
Export Promotion, Capital Goods
Employees Provident Fund
Export Processing Zones/Export
Promotion Zone
Expenditure Reforms Commission
Enhanced Structural Adjustment
Facility
Economic and Social Commission for
Asia and the Pacific
Economically Weaker Sections
Export and Import Bank
Export Import Policy
Food and Agriculture Organisation
Financial Action Task Force
Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds
Fully Convertible Debentures
Food Corporation of India
Foreign Currency Non-residents
Accounts (Banks)
Foreign Controlled Rupee Companies
Foreign Direct Investment
Foreign Exchange Certificates
Foreign Exchange Management Act
Foreign Exchange Reserves
Foreign Exchange Regulation Act
Fish Farmers Development Agencies
Food for Work
Foreign Investment Promotion Board
Federation of Indian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry
Foreign Investment Implementation
Authority
Foreign Institutional Investors
Foreign Investment Promotion Board
Foreign Investment Promotion Council
Functioning of the GATT Systems
Fiscal Responsibility and Budget
Management
Free Trade Zones
Food for Work Programme
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
General Currency Area
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GCF
GDCF
GDI
GDP
GDRs
GDS
GEF
GFCF
GFD
GFR
GNI
GPF
GRT
GSFC
GSTP
GTR
HDFC
HDI
HMKP
HMS
HPAEs
HPC
HPI
HUDCO
HYVP
IAAI
IADP
IATP
IAY
IBA
IBM
IBPs
IBRD
ICAR
IC DS
ICICI
ICL
ICOR
ICP
ICRA
ICRR
ABBREVIATIONS
Gross Capital Formation
Gross Domestic Capital Formation
Gender related Development Index
Gross Domestic Product
Global Depository Receipts
Gross Domestic Saving
Global Environment Fund
Gross Fixed Capital Formation
Gross Fiscal Deficit
General Fertility Rate
Gross National Income
Gandhi Peace Foundation
Gross Registered Tonnage
Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation
Global System of Trade Preference
Gross Tax Revenue
Housing Development Finance
Corporation
Human Development Index
Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat
Hind Mazdoor Sabha
High Performing Asian Economies
High Power Committee
Human Poverty Index
Housing and Urban Development
Corporation of India Ltd.
High Yielding Varieties Programme
International Airports Authority of
India
Intensive Agricultural District
Programme
Income Adjusted Total Population
Indira Awaas Yojna
Indian Bankers Association
International Business Machines
Inter-Bank Participations
International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development (World Bank)
Indian Council of Agricultural Research
Integrated Child Development Services
Scheme
Industrial Credit and Investment
Corporation of India
Indian Confederation of Labour
Incremental Capital Output Ratio
International Comparison Programme
Investment Information and Credit
Rating Agancy of India Ltd.
Incremental Cash Reserve Ratio
ICRR
IDA
IDBI
IDRA
IEBR
IEBR
IFC
IFCI
IFFCO
RBI
IIDC
IIDCs
DF
DP
IISCO
IL&FS
ILO
IMF
INTUC
D*CL
ffPs
IPPs
n*BI
IRCI
IRDP
IREDA
1SID
ISID
ISM
ISRO
IT
ITI
IUCN
IWT
JMF
JNURM
(
Indepent Cash Reserve Ratio
International Development Association
Industrial Development Bank of India
Industrial (Development & Regulation)
Act
Internal and Extra B udgetary Resources
International Extra Budgetary
Resources
Indian Fiscal Commission
Industrial Finance Corporation of India
Indian Farmers Fertilizers Cooperative
Ltd.
Industrial Investment Bank of India
Integrated Infrastructure Development
Centres
Integrated Infrastructure Development
Centers
Institute of International Finance
Index of Industrial Production
Indian Iron and Steel Company
Infrastructure Leasing and Financial
Services Ltd.
International Labour Organisation
International Monetary Fund
Indian National Trade Union Congress
Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd.
Independent Power Producers
Independent Power Producers
Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India
Industrial Reconstruction Corporation
of India
Integrated Rural Development
Programme
Indian
Renewable
Energy
Development Agency
Institute for Studies in Industrial
Development
Institute for Study of Industrial
Development
Indian System of Medicine
Indian Space Research Organisation
Information Technology
Industrial Training Institute
International Union for the
Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources
Inland Water Transport
Jute Modernisation Fund
Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal
Mission
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ABBREVIATIONS
JPC
JRY
KCC
KV1C
LBS
LCC
LDBs
LDCs
I.ERM
LFPR
LIBOR
LTFP
MAI
MAT
MCH
MCR
MDG
MDMS
MEP
MFA
MFAL
MIC
MIC
MIGA
MIS
MISA
MMMFs
MMTC
MNCs
MNP
MODVAT
MOU
MPCE
MRTP
MSP
MTN
MTNL
MTO
MWS
NABARD
NAKED
Joint Plant Committee/Joint
Parliamentary Committee
Jawahar Rozgar Yojna
Kisan Credit Card
Khadi and Village Industries
Commission
Lead Bank Scheme
Low Cost Carrier
Land Development Banks
Least Developed Countries
Liberalised Exchange Rate Mechanism
Labour force Participation Races
London Inter-bank Borrowing Rate
Long Term Fiscal Policy
Multilateral Agreement on Investment
Minimum Alternate Tax
Maternity and Child Health
Miscellaneous Capital Receipts
Millennium Development Goals
Mid-day Meal Scheme
Macro-economic Programme
Multi-Fibre Agreement
Marginal Farmers and Agricultural
Labourers
Monopolies Inquiry Commission
Monopolies Inquiry Commission
Multilateral Investment Guarantee
Agency
Management Information System
Maintenance of Internal Security Act
Money Market Mutual Funds
Minerals and Metals Trading
Corporation
Multi-national Corporations
Minimum Needs Programme
Modified Value Added Tax
Memorandum of Understanding
Monthly Per Capita Expenditure
Monopolies and Restrictive Trade
Practices
Minimum Support Price
Multilateral Trade Negotiations
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.
Multilateral Trade Organisation
Million Wells Scheme
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development
National Agricultural Cooperative
Marketing Federation
NAS
NASSCOM
NAV
NBFC
NBFCs
NBO
NCA
NCAER
NCCF
NCDBA
NCDC
NCDWB
NCEUS
NCF
NCL
NCRL
NDC
NDCF
NDDB
NDP
NEEP
NEF
NELP
NEP
NFC
NFE
NFITU
NGOs
NHAI
NHB
NHPC
NIDC
NIEs
N1PFP
NIRD
N1J
NLM
National Accounts Statistics
National Association of Software and
Services Companies
Net Asset Value
National Banking Finance Companies
Non-banking Finance Companies
National Building Organization
National Commissionon on Agriculture
National Council of Applied Economic
Research
National Consumers Cooperative
Federation
National Committee for the
Development of Backward Areas
National Cooperative Development
Corporation
National Cooperative Development
and Warehousing Board
National Commission on Enterprises
in the Unorganised Sector
National Commission on Farmers
National Commission on Labour
National Commission on Rural Labour
National Development Council
Net Domestic Capital Formation
National Dairy Development Board
Net Domestic Product
National Energy Efficiency Programme
National Equity Fund
New Exploration Licensing Policy
New Economic Policy
Ninth Finance Commission
Net Foreign Exchange Earnings
National Federation of Independent
Trade Unions
Non-Government Organisations
National Highways Authority of India
Ltd.
National Housing Bank
National Hydel Power Corporation
National Industrial Development
Corporation
Newly Industrialised Economies
National Institute of Public Finance
and Policy
National Institute of Rural
Development
National Labour Institute
National Literacy Mission
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NLO
NNMB
NNP
NOCIL
NODP
NPAs
NPC
NPMN
NPRI
NREGA
NREGP
NREP
NRF
NRHM
NRIs
NRNR
NRR
NRSA
NSC
NSDP
NSIC
NSS
NTC
NWDB
OAEs
OCBs
OECD
OGL
ONGC
OPEC
OPTP
OTCEI
PAC
PACER
PACS
PACT
PBIT
PBR
ABBREVIATIONS
National Labour Organisation
National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau
Net National Product
National Organic Chemical Industries
Ltd.
National Oilseed Development
Programme
Non-performing Assets
National Planning Commission
National Programme for Minimum
Needs
National Programme of Rural
Industrialisation
National Rural Employment Guarantee
Act
National Rural Employment Guarantee
Programme
National Rural Employment
Programme
National Renewal Fund
National Rural Health Mission
Non-Resident Indians
Non-Resident Non-repatriable Rupee
Account
Net Reproduction Rate
National Remote Sensing Agency
National Seeds Corporation
Net State Domestic Product
National Small-scale Industries
Corporation
National Sample Survey
Nationa Textile Corporation
National Wastelands Development
Board
On Account Enterprises
Overseas Corporate Bodies
Organisation for
Economic
Cooperation and Development
Open General Licence
Oil and Natural Gas Commission
Organisation of Petroleium Exporting
Countries
Oilseeds Production Thrust Project
Over the Counter Exchange of India
Public Accounts Committee
Programme for Acceleration of
Commercial Energy Research
Primary Agricultural Credit Societies
Programme for the Advancement of
Commercial Technology
Profit Before Interest and Tax
Plant Breeder Right
PBT
PCDs
PDS
PECV
PEO
PFC
PHDCCI
PIM
PLF
PMRY
PMS
PNs
POL
PPDS
PPDs
PPP
PPPs
PSBR
PSE
PSIF
PSU
PURA
RBI
RCF
RCH
RCTC
RDA
RDD
REC
RUJ
RIDF
RLEGP
ROI
RPA
RRBs
RSVC
RTCs
S&T
SAA
SAARC
SAIL
SCARDB
Profit Before Tax
Partially Convertible Debentures
Public Distribution System
Profit-Earning Capacity Value
Programme Evaluation Organisation
Persons of Indian Origin
Power Finance .Corporation
Punjab, Haryanaand Delhi Chamber of
Commerce and Industry
Participatory Irrigation Management
Plant Load Factor
Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojana
Portfolio Management Scheme
Participatory Notes
Petroleium Oil and Lubricants
Process-cum-Product Development
Centres
Process-cum-Product Development
Centres
Public - Private Partnership
Purchasing Power Parities
Public Sector Borrowing Requirement
Public Sector Enterprises
Public Sector Infrastructural Facility
Public Sector Undertakings
Providing Urban Facilities in Rural
Areas
Reserve Bank of India
Risk Capital Foundation
Reproductive and Child Health Care
Risk Capital and Technology
Corporation Ltd.
Recommended Daily allowance
Research Design and Development
Rural Electrification Corporation
Resurgent India Bonds
Rural Infrastructure Development Fund
Rural Landless Employment Guarantee
Return on Investment
Rupee Payments Area
Regional Rural Banks
Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana (National
Equal Development Plan)
Road Transport Corporations
Science & Technology
Service Area Approach
South Asian Association for Regiinal
Cooperation
Steel Authority of India Ltd.
State Cooperative Agricultural Rural
Development Bank
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ABBREVIATIONS
SCBs
SCI
SCICI
SCOPE
SDK
SDP
SEBI
SEBs
SEZs
SFCs
SFDAs
SFPP
SGL
SHCIL
SHG
SIA
SICA
SIDBI
SIDCs
SIDF
SIDO
SIL
SLPEs
SLR
SLUB
SME
SMP
SNA
SNP
SPG
SPY
SRS
SRTCs
SRTUs
SSA
SSEs
SSIDC
SSIS
SSIs
STC
STCI
SUME
SWCs
sws
TAFCO
State Cooperative Banks
Shipping Corporation of India
Shipping Credit and Investment
Corporation of India
Standing Conference of Public
Enterprises
Steel Development Fund
State Domestic Product
Securities and Exchange Board of India
State Electricity Boards
Special Economic Zones
State Financial Corporations
Small Farmers Development Agencies
Special Foodgrains Production
Programme
Subsidiary General Ledger
Stock Holding Corporation of India
Ltd.
Self help Group
Secretariat of Industrial Approvals
Sick Industrial Companies Act
Small Industires Development Bank of
India
State Industrial Development
Corporations
Small Industries Development Fund
Small-scale Industries Development
Organisation
Special Import Licence
State Level Public Enterprises
Statutory Liquidity Requirements
State Land Use Board
Small and Medium Enterprises
Statutory Minimum Price
System of National Accounts
Special Nutrition Programme
Squared Poverty Gap
Standard Person Year
Sample Registration System
State Road Transport Corporations
State Road Transport Undertakings
Sarve Shiksha Abhiyan (Education for
all)
Small Scale Enterprises
State Small Industries Development
Corporation
Small Scale Industrial Sector
Small Scale Industries
State Trading Corporation
Securities Trading Corporation of India
Ltd.
Scheme for Urban Micro Enterprises
State Warehousing Corporations
Single Window Scheme
Tannery and Footwear Corporation
TCOs
TDC
TDICI
TEST
TFC
TFCI
TFR
TISCO
TLM
TNCs
TPDS
TPS
TRAI
TRIFED
TRIMS
TRIPs
TRYSEM
TUCC
UNDP
UNESCO
UNRID
UPOV
UPS
UR
URP
un
UTUC-LS
VABAL
VAM
VAT
VCF
VDIS
VDS
VECC
VRS
WCSDC
WDR
WHO
WLL
WPI
WPR
WTO
WUAs
XGS
Technical Consultancy Organisations
Technology Development Cell
Technology Development and
Infomation Company of India Ltd.
Trade in Environmental Science and
Technologies Programme
Tenth Finance Commission
Tourism Finance Corporation of India
Total Fertility Rate
Tate Iron and Steel Co.
Total Literacy Mission
Transnational Corporations
Targeted Public Distribution System
Technology Policy Statement
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
Tribal Cooperative Marketing
Development Federation of India Ltd.
Trade Related Investment Measures
Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights
Training Scheme for Rural Youth for
Self-Employment
Trade Union Coordination Committee
United Nations Development
Programme
United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organisaion
United Nations Research Institute for
Development
International Union for the Protection
of New Varieties of Plants
Usual Principal Status
Uruguay Round
Uniform Recall Period
Unit Trust of India
United Trade Union Congress - Lenin
Sarani
Value Based Advance Licence
Value Added by Manufacture
Value Added Tax
Venture Capital Funds
Voluntary Disclosure Income Scheme
Voluntary Disclosure Scheme
Voluntary Executive Crops Cell
Voluntary Retirement Scheme
World Commission on the Social
Dimensions of Globalisation
World Development Report
World Health Organisation
Wireless in Local Loop
Wholesale Price Index
Work Participation Rate
World Trade Organisation
Water Users Associations
Exports of Goods and Services
AAI
AAPs
ACRS
ADB
ADR
AGMARK
AHT
AIMO
AITUC
ATTWF
AMCs
APC
APDRP
Airport Authority of India
Annual Action Plans
Agricultural Credit Review Committee
Asian Development Bank
American Depository Receipts
Agricultural Marketing Department
Agricultural Holdings Tax
All-India Manufacturers Organisation
All-India Trade Union Congress
All-India Textile Workers' Federation
Asset Management Companies
Agricultural Prices Commission
Accelerated Power Development and
Reform Programme
APDRP
Accelerated Power Development and
Reform Programme
APL
Above the Poverty Line
APM
Administered Pricing Mechanism
APR
Administered Pricing Regime
ARCI
Agricultural Refinance Corporation of
India
ARDC
Agricultural Refinance Development
Corporation
ARDC
Agricultural Refinance Development
Corporation
ARF
Assets Reconstruction Fund
ARM
Additional Resource Mobilisation
ARS
Assets Responsibility System
ASSOCH A M Associated Chamber of Commerce and
Industry
ATC
Agreement on Textiles and Clothing
ATM
Automatic Teller Machines
BCR
Balance from Current Revenues
BFAD
Brackish Water Fish Farmers'
Development Agencies
HI IK
Board of Industrial and Financial
Reconstruction
BIMARU
States Bihar, Madhya Pradesh,
Rajasthan and U.P.
BIS
Bank of International Settlement
BMS
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh
BN
Bharat Nirman
BOL
Build-Own-Lease
BOOS
Build-Own - Operate System
BOP
Balance of Payment
BOT
BPE
BPL
BSE
BSNL
CAC
CACP
CAD
CADP
CAG
CAGR
CARC
CARDBs
CARE
CAS
CBR
CCA
CCBs
CCFI
CCI
CCI
CCI
CCS
CDS
CGS
CHV
CD
CIL
CIRM
CIS
CITU
CKD
CMA
CMIE
CMP
CNC
COFEPOSA
COPU
1028
Build-Operate and Transfer System
Bureau of Public Enterprises
Below the Poverty Line
Bombay Stock Exchange
Bharat Sanchar Nigarm Ltd.
Capital Account Convertibility
Commission for Agricultural Costs and
Prices
Command Area Development/Current
Account Deficit
Command Area Development
Programme
Comptroller and Auditor General
Compound Average Growth Rate
Congress Agrarian Reforms Committee
Cooperative Agricultural and Rural
Development Banks
Co-operative for American Relief
Everywhere
Credit Authorisation Scheme
Crude Birth Rate
Culturable Command Area
Central Cooperative Banks
Cabinet Committee on Foreign
Investment
Communications Commission of India
Competition Commission of India
Controller of Capital Issues
Cash Compensatory Support
Current Daily Status
Credit Guarantee Scheme
Community Health Volunteer
Confederation of Indian Industry
Coal India Ltd.
Central Industrial Relations Machinery
Commonwealth of Independent States
Centre of Indian Trade Unions
Completely Knocked down
Credit Monitoring Arrangement
Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy
Coommon Minimum Programme
Computer Numerically Controlled
Conservation of Foreign Exchange and
Prevention of Smuggling Activities
Committee on Public Undertakings
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ABBREVIATIONS
COR
CPI
CPI
CPIAL
CPDW
CPINM
CPR
CPSEs
CPSU
CRAR
CRISIL
CRR
CSEAs
CSEPs
CSF
CSIR
CSO
CST
CTM
CWC
DCPs
DDP
DFH
DFIs
DGCA
DGCI&S
DGET
DGSD
DIC
DICGC
DIR
DIR
DOT
DRAP
DRDAs
DRI
DTEC
DTL
EAS
ECB
Capital-Output Ratio
Consumer Price Index
Corruption Perception Index
Consumer Price Index for Agricultural
Labourers
Consumer Price Index for Industrial
Workers
Consumer Price Index for Non-manual
Employees
Couple Protection Rate
Central Public Sector Enterprises
Central Public Sector Undertaking
Capital to Risk Assets Ratio
Credit Rating Information Services of
India Ltd.
Cash Reserve Requirements
Cluster Small Enterprise Associations
Cluster Small Enterprise Associations
Consolodated Sinking Fund
Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research
Central Statistical Organisation
Central Sales Tax
Cotton Technology Mission
Central Warehousing Corporation
District Credit Plans
Desert Development Programme
Discount and Finance House of India
Ltd.
Development Financial Institutions
Director-General of Civil Aviation
Directorate General of Commercial
Intelligence and Statistics
Directorate General of Employment
and Training
Director-General of Supplies and
Disposals
District Industries Centre
Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee
Corporation
Defence of India Rules
Differential Interest Rate
Department of Electronics
Drought Prone Area Programme
District Rural Development Agencies
Differential Rate of Interest
Direct Taxes Enquiry Committee
Demand and Time Liabilities
Employment Assurance Scheme
External Commercial Borrowing
ECM
EDP
EEC
EFC
EFTA
EGS
EOUs
EPCG
EPF
EPZs
ERC
ESAF
ESCAP
EWS
EXIM Bank
EXIM Policy
FAO
FATF
FCCBs
FCDs
FCI
FCNR(B)
FCRCs
FDI
FECs
FEMA
FER
FERA
FFDAs
FFW
FIB
FICCI
FDA
FIIs
FIPB
FIPC
FOGS
FRBM
FTZ
FWP
GATT
GCA
European Common Market
Entrepreneurship Development
Programme
European Economic Community
Eleventh Finance Commission
European Free Trade Area
Employment Guarantee Scheme
Export Oriented Units
Export Promotion, Capital Goods
Employees Provident Fund
Export Processing Zones/Export
Promotion Zone
Expenditure Reforms Commission
Enhanced Structural Adjustment
Facility
Economic and Social Commission for
Asia and the Pacific
Economically Weaker Sections
Export and Import Bank
Export Import Policy
Food and Agriculture Organisation
Financial Action Task Force
Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds
Fully Convertible Debentures
Food Corporation of India
Foreign Currency Non-residents
Accounts (Banks)
Foreign Controlled Rupee Companies
Foreign Direct Investment
Foreign Exchange Certificates
Foreign Exchange Management Act
Foreign Exchange Reserves
Foreign Exchange Regulation Act
Fish Farmers Development Agencies
Food for Work
Foreign Investment Promotion Board
Federation of Indian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry
Foreign Investment Implementation
Authority
Foreign Institutional Investors
Foreign Investment Promotion Board
Foreign Investment Promotion Council
Functioning of the GATT Systems
Fiscal Responsibility and Budget
Management
Free Trade Zones
Food for Work Programme
General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
General Currency Area
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GCF
GDCF
GDI
GDP
GDRs
GDS
GEF
GFCF
GFD
GFR
GNI
GPF
GRT
GSFC
GSTP
GTR
HDFC
HDI
HMKP
HMS
HPAEs
HPC
HPI
HUDCO
HYVP
IAAI
IADP
IATP
IAY
IBA
IBM
IBPs
IBRD
ICAR
IC DS
ICICI
ICL
ICOR
ICP
ICRA
ICRR
ABBREVIATIONS
Gross Capital Formation
Gross Domestic Capital Formation
Gender related Development Index
Gross Domestic Product
Global Depository Receipts
Gross Domestic Saving
Global Environment Fund
Gross Fixed Capital Formation
Gross Fiscal Deficit
General Fertility Rate
Gross National Income
Gandhi Peace Foundation
Gross Registered Tonnage
Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation
Global System of Trade Preference
Gross Tax Revenue
Housing Development Finance
Corporation
Human Development Index
Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat
Hind Mazdoor Sabha
High Performing Asian Economies
High Power Committee
Human Poverty Index
Housing and Urban Development
Corporation of India Ltd.
High Yielding Varieties Programme
International Airports Authority of
India
Intensive Agricultural District
Programme
Income Adjusted Total Population
Indira Awaas Yojna
Indian Bankers Association
International Business Machines
Inter-Bank Participations
International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development (World Bank)
Indian Council of Agricultural Research
Integrated Child Development Services
Scheme
Industrial Credit and Investment
Corporation of India
Indian Confederation of Labour
Incremental Capital Output Ratio
International Comparison Programme
Investment Information and Credit
Rating Agancy of India Ltd.
Incremental Cash Reserve Ratio
ICRR
IDA
IDBI
IDRA
IEBR
IEBR
IFC
IFCI
IFFCO
RBI
IIDC
IIDCs
DF
DP
IISCO
IL&FS
ILO
IMF
INTUC
D*CL
ffPs
IPPs
n*BI
IRCI
IRDP
IREDA
1SID
ISID
ISM
ISRO
IT
ITI
IUCN
IWT
JMF
JNURM
(
Indepent Cash Reserve Ratio
International Development Association
Industrial Development Bank of India
Industrial (Development & Regulation)
Act
Internal and Extra B udgetary Resources
International Extra Budgetary
Resources
Indian Fiscal Commission
Industrial Finance Corporation of India
Indian Farmers Fertilizers Cooperative
Ltd.
Industrial Investment Bank of India
Integrated Infrastructure Development
Centres
Integrated Infrastructure Development
Centers
Institute of International Finance
Index of Industrial Production
Indian Iron and Steel Company
Infrastructure Leasing and Financial
Services Ltd.
International Labour Organisation
International Monetary Fund
Indian National Trade Union Congress
Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd.
Independent Power Producers
Independent Power Producers
Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India
Industrial Reconstruction Corporation
of India
Integrated Rural Development
Programme
Indian
Renewable
Energy
Development Agency
Institute for Studies in Industrial
Development
Institute for Study of Industrial
Development
Indian System of Medicine
Indian Space Research Organisation
Information Technology
Industrial Training Institute
International Union for the
Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources
Inland Water Transport
Jute Modernisation Fund
Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal
Mission
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ABBREVIATIONS
JPC
JRY
KCC
KV1C
LBS
LCC
LDBs
LDCs
I.ERM
LFPR
LIBOR
LTFP
MAI
MAT
MCH
MCR
MDG
MDMS
MEP
MFA
MFAL
MIC
MIC
MIGA
MIS
MISA
MMMFs
MMTC
MNCs
MNP
MODVAT
MOU
MPCE
MRTP
MSP
MTN
MTNL
MTO
MWS
NABARD
NAKED
Joint Plant Committee/Joint
Parliamentary Committee
Jawahar Rozgar Yojna
Kisan Credit Card
Khadi and Village Industries
Commission
Lead Bank Scheme
Low Cost Carrier
Land Development Banks
Least Developed Countries
Liberalised Exchange Rate Mechanism
Labour force Participation Races
London Inter-bank Borrowing Rate
Long Term Fiscal Policy
Multilateral Agreement on Investment
Minimum Alternate Tax
Maternity and Child Health
Miscellaneous Capital Receipts
Millennium Development Goals
Mid-day Meal Scheme
Macro-economic Programme
Multi-Fibre Agreement
Marginal Farmers and Agricultural
Labourers
Monopolies Inquiry Commission
Monopolies Inquiry Commission
Multilateral Investment Guarantee
Agency
Management Information System
Maintenance of Internal Security Act
Money Market Mutual Funds
Minerals and Metals Trading
Corporation
Multi-national Corporations
Minimum Needs Programme
Modified Value Added Tax
Memorandum of Understanding
Monthly Per Capita Expenditure
Monopolies and Restrictive Trade
Practices
Minimum Support Price
Multilateral Trade Negotiations
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.
Multilateral Trade Organisation
Million Wells Scheme
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development
National Agricultural Cooperative
Marketing Federation
NAS
NASSCOM
NAV
NBFC
NBFCs
NBO
NCA
NCAER
NCCF
NCDBA
NCDC
NCDWB
NCEUS
NCF
NCL
NCRL
NDC
NDCF
NDDB
NDP
NEEP
NEF
NELP
NEP
NFC
NFE
NFITU
NGOs
NHAI
NHB
NHPC
NIDC
NIEs
N1PFP
NIRD
N1J
NLM
National Accounts Statistics
National Association of Software and
Services Companies
Net Asset Value
National Banking Finance Companies
Non-banking Finance Companies
National Building Organization
National Commissionon on Agriculture
National Council of Applied Economic
Research
National Consumers Cooperative
Federation
National Committee for the
Development of Backward Areas
National Cooperative Development
Corporation
National Cooperative Development
and Warehousing Board
National Commission on Enterprises
in the Unorganised Sector
National Commission on Farmers
National Commission on Labour
National Commission on Rural Labour
National Development Council
Net Domestic Capital Formation
National Dairy Development Board
Net Domestic Product
National Energy Efficiency Programme
National Equity Fund
New Exploration Licensing Policy
New Economic Policy
Ninth Finance Commission
Net Foreign Exchange Earnings
National Federation of Independent
Trade Unions
Non-Government Organisations
National Highways Authority of India
Ltd.
National Housing Bank
National Hydel Power Corporation
National Industrial Development
Corporation
Newly Industrialised Economies
National Institute of Public Finance
and Policy
National Institute of Rural
Development
National Labour Institute
National Literacy Mission
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NLO
NNMB
NNP
NOCIL
NODP
NPAs
NPC
NPMN
NPRI
NREGA
NREGP
NREP
NRF
NRHM
NRIs
NRNR
NRR
NRSA
NSC
NSDP
NSIC
NSS
NTC
NWDB
OAEs
OCBs
OECD
OGL
ONGC
OPEC
OPTP
OTCEI
PAC
PACER
PACS
PACT
PBIT
PBR
ABBREVIATIONS
National Labour Organisation
National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau
Net National Product
National Organic Chemical Industries
Ltd.
National Oilseed Development
Programme
Non-performing Assets
National Planning Commission
National Programme for Minimum
Needs
National Programme of Rural
Industrialisation
National Rural Employment Guarantee
Act
National Rural Employment Guarantee
Programme
National Rural Employment
Programme
National Renewal Fund
National Rural Health Mission
Non-Resident Indians
Non-Resident Non-repatriable Rupee
Account
Net Reproduction Rate
National Remote Sensing Agency
National Seeds Corporation
Net State Domestic Product
National Small-scale Industries
Corporation
National Sample Survey
Nationa Textile Corporation
National Wastelands Development
Board
On Account Enterprises
Overseas Corporate Bodies
Organisation for
Economic
Cooperation and Development
Open General Licence
Oil and Natural Gas Commission
Organisation of Petroleium Exporting
Countries
Oilseeds Production Thrust Project
Over the Counter Exchange of India
Public Accounts Committee
Programme for Acceleration of
Commercial Energy Research
Primary Agricultural Credit Societies
Programme for the Advancement of
Commercial Technology
Profit Before Interest and Tax
Plant Breeder Right
PBT
PCDs
PDS
PECV
PEO
PFC
PHDCCI
PIM
PLF
PMRY
PMS
PNs
POL
PPDS
PPDs
PPP
PPPs
PSBR
PSE
PSIF
PSU
PURA
RBI
RCF
RCH
RCTC
RDA
RDD
REC
RUJ
RIDF
RLEGP
ROI
RPA
RRBs
RSVC
RTCs
S&T
SAA
SAARC
SAIL
SCARDB
Profit Before Tax
Partially Convertible Debentures
Public Distribution System
Profit-Earning Capacity Value
Programme Evaluation Organisation
Persons of Indian Origin
Power Finance .Corporation
Punjab, Haryanaand Delhi Chamber of
Commerce and Industry
Participatory Irrigation Management
Plant Load Factor
Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojana
Portfolio Management Scheme
Participatory Notes
Petroleium Oil and Lubricants
Process-cum-Product Development
Centres
Process-cum-Product Development
Centres
Public - Private Partnership
Purchasing Power Parities
Public Sector Borrowing Requirement
Public Sector Enterprises
Public Sector Infrastructural Facility
Public Sector Undertakings
Providing Urban Facilities in Rural
Areas
Reserve Bank of India
Risk Capital Foundation
Reproductive and Child Health Care
Risk Capital and Technology
Corporation Ltd.
Recommended Daily allowance
Research Design and Development
Rural Electrification Corporation
Resurgent India Bonds
Rural Infrastructure Development Fund
Rural Landless Employment Guarantee
Return on Investment
Rupee Payments Area
Regional Rural Banks
Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana (National
Equal Development Plan)
Road Transport Corporations
Science & Technology
Service Area Approach
South Asian Association for Regiinal
Cooperation
Steel Authority of India Ltd.
State Cooperative Agricultural Rural
Development Bank
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ABBREVIATIONS
SCBs
SCI
SCICI
SCOPE
SDK
SDP
SEBI
SEBs
SEZs
SFCs
SFDAs
SFPP
SGL
SHCIL
SHG
SIA
SICA
SIDBI
SIDCs
SIDF
SIDO
SIL
SLPEs
SLR
SLUB
SME
SMP
SNA
SNP
SPG
SPY
SRS
SRTCs
SRTUs
SSA
SSEs
SSIDC
SSIS
SSIs
STC
STCI
SUME
SWCs
sws
TAFCO
State Cooperative Banks
Shipping Corporation of India
Shipping Credit and Investment
Corporation of India
Standing Conference of Public
Enterprises
Steel Development Fund
State Domestic Product
Securities and Exchange Board of India
State Electricity Boards
Special Economic Zones
State Financial Corporations
Small Farmers Development Agencies
Special Foodgrains Production
Programme
Subsidiary General Ledger
Stock Holding Corporation of India
Ltd.
Self help Group
Secretariat of Industrial Approvals
Sick Industrial Companies Act
Small Industires Development Bank of
India
State Industrial Development
Corporations
Small Industries Development Fund
Small-scale Industries Development
Organisation
Special Import Licence
State Level Public Enterprises
Statutory Liquidity Requirements
State Land Use Board
Small and Medium Enterprises
Statutory Minimum Price
System of National Accounts
Special Nutrition Programme
Squared Poverty Gap
Standard Person Year
Sample Registration System
State Road Transport Corporations
State Road Transport Undertakings
Sarve Shiksha Abhiyan (Education for
all)
Small Scale Enterprises
State Small Industries Development
Corporation
Small Scale Industrial Sector
Small Scale Industries
State Trading Corporation
Securities Trading Corporation of India
Ltd.
Scheme for Urban Micro Enterprises
State Warehousing Corporations
Single Window Scheme
Tannery and Footwear Corporation
TCOs
TDC
TDICI
TEST
TFC
TFCI
TFR
TISCO
TLM
TNCs
TPDS
TPS
TRAI
TRIFED
TRIMS
TRIPs
TRYSEM
TUCC
UNDP
UNESCO
UNRID
UPOV
UPS
UR
URP
un
UTUC-LS
VABAL
VAM
VAT
VCF
VDIS
VDS
VECC
VRS
WCSDC
WDR
WHO
WLL
WPI
WPR
WTO
WUAs
XGS
Technical Consultancy Organisations
Technology Development Cell
Technology Development and
Infomation Company of India Ltd.
Trade in Environmental Science and
Technologies Programme
Tenth Finance Commission
Tourism Finance Corporation of India
Total Fertility Rate
Tate Iron and Steel Co.
Total Literacy Mission
Transnational Corporations
Targeted Public Distribution System
Technology Policy Statement
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
Tribal Cooperative Marketing
Development Federation of India Ltd.
Trade Related Investment Measures
Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights
Training Scheme for Rural Youth for
Self-Employment
Trade Union Coordination Committee
United Nations Development
Programme
United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organisaion
United Nations Research Institute for
Development
International Union for the Protection
of New Varieties of Plants
Usual Principal Status
Uruguay Round
Uniform Recall Period
Unit Trust of India
United Trade Union Congress - Lenin
Sarani
Value Based Advance Licence
Value Added by Manufacture
Value Added Tax
Venture Capital Funds
Voluntary Disclosure Income Scheme
Voluntary Disclosure Scheme
Voluntary Executive Crops Cell
Voluntary Retirement Scheme
World Commission on the Social
Dimensions of Globalisation
World Development Report
World Health Organisation
Wireless in Local Loop
Wholesale Price Index
Work Participation Rate
World Trade Organisation
Water Users Associations
Exports of Goods and Services
