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HomeRecent PostCommon Indian Acronyms and Abbreviations

Common Indian Acronyms and Abbreviations

Asheesh Kamal-Official Friday, March 18, 2016

AAI
Airport Authority of India
ABCDEFGHIJ
American Born Confused Desi Emigrated From Gujarat, House In Jersey
AGP
AsomGanaParishad, regional party in Assam
AI
Air India, a PSU
AIADMK
 All-India Anna DravidaMunnetraKazhagam
AIR
 All India Radio, state owned radio stations
AP
 Andhra Pradesh; Arunachal Pradesh
ASLV
 Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle
BCCI
 Board of Cricket Control in India
BG
 Broad Gauge (trains or tracks (5ft. 6in.  the broadest in the world)
BJP
BharatiyaJanata Party, national political party, rightwing, pro-Hindu
BSP
BahujanSamaj Party, political party, promotes lower caste interests
CBI
 Central Bureau of Investigation (like American FBI)
CBSE
Central Board of Secondary Education
Chi. 
Chiranjeevi, the title/salutation for a bridegroom
CII
 Confederation fo Indian Industry
CM
Chief Minister  (like American Governor
CPI
 Communist Party of India (historically aligned to Russian party)
CPI (M)
 Communist Party of India (Marxist), historically aligned to Chinese party
CPI (ML)
 Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
CPWD
 Central Public Works Department; PWD of the GOI
DA
 Dearness Allowance, paid to compensate for inflation
DD
Doordarshan, state-owned television channel
DMK
DravidaMunnetraKazhagam
DoT
 Department of Telecommunications
DRDO
Defence Research and Development Organisation
EMU
 Electric Multiple Unit
FC
 Forward Caste
FM
 Finance Minister
GoI
 Government of India
GSLV
 Geostationary Launch Vehicle
HC
 High Court (the highest provincial court, but lower than the federal Supreme Court)
HP
 Himachal Pradesh
IAF
Indian Air Force
IGNOU
 Indira Gandhi National Open University
IIM
 Indian Institute of Management
IIT
 Indian Institute of Technology
IMD
 India Meteorological Department
INSAT
 Indian National Satellite
IPKF
 Indian Peace Keeping Force, postioned in a foreign country such as Sri Lanka
IRS
Indian Remote Sensing Satellite
ISI
Formerly Indian Standards Institute, renamed Bureau of Indian Standards,
ISRO
 Indian Space Research Organisation
KVS

LoC
 Line of Control (between Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and Indian-controlled state of Jammu & Kashmir, formerly called the Cease-Fire Line
LS
LokSabha (lower house of Parliament)
LTTE
 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
m-cap
 (stock) market capitalisation
MDMK
MarumalarchiDravidaMunnetraKazhagam
MEA
 Ministry of External Affairs
MG
 Meter Gauge (trains or tracks), being phased out
MP
 Madhya Pradesh
NET

NDA
 National Democratic Alliance
NIC :
 National Informatics Centre
NRI
 Non-Resident Indian
NSC
 National Savings Certificate
NVS

OBC
 Other Backward Classes
ONGC
 Oil and Natural Gas Commission
PAN
 Permanent Account Number (like US Taxpayer Identification Number)
PF
 Provident Fund (vaguely similar to US Social Security, payable as a lump-sum)
PIGS  
 Poor Indian Graduate Student
PIL
 Public Interest Litigation (brought before a High Court, by a friend of the court)
PMK
Pattali Munnetra Kazhagam
PQWL
 Pooled Quota Wait List, Indian Railways Acronym
PSLV
 Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
PSU
 Public Sector Unit (a company whose stock is owned largely by the government)
PTI
 Press Trust of India, a news agency
PWD
 Public Works Department (state civil engineering group handling roads, bridges)
RAC
 Reservation Against Cancellation, Indian Railways Acronym
RAW
Research & Analysis Wing (similar to US CIA)
REGRET/WL1  
 No More Booking Permitted, Indian Railways Acronym
RLWL-
 Remote Location Wait List, Indian Railways Acronym
RNRI
 Returned Non Resident Indian, An NRI who has moved to his home country
RS
Rajya Sabha, upper house of Indian Parliament
RSS
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
SAARC
 South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (seven countries of South Asia)
SAIL
 Steel Authority of India, a public sector undertaking (PSU)
SC
 Supreme Court, the highest court in the country (higher than High Courts)
SC/ST
 Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Harijans or Dalits)
SEBI
 Securities Exchange Board of India
Sensex
 Sensitive Index (of the Bombay Stock Exchange), like Dow Jones average
SP
Samajwadi Party; Samata Party
ST
 Scheduled Tribes
TN
 Tamil Nadu
ULFA
 United Liberation Front of Asom
UP
Uttar Pradesh
VHP
Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a fundamentalist Hindu party, right of BJP
WB
West Bengal
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