Abbreviations and Interpretations                                   

Abbreviation Interpretations

AA Alcoholic Anonymous

AAFI The Amateur Atheletic Federation of India

AAPSO Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation

ABC Atomic Biological and Chemical (Warfare)

ADBS Advance Data Broadcasting System

AGP Accelerated Graphics Port

AICTE All India Council for Technical Education

AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

AIFF All India Football Federation

AIIMS All India Institute of Medical Sciences

AINEC All India Newspaper Editor's Conference

AMIE Associated Member of Institute of Engineers

ANC African National Congress

ANERT Agency for Non-Conventional Energy and Rural Technology

APCTT Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology

APEC Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation

ARMD Age Related Muscular Disease

ARPANET Advanced Research Project Agency Network

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nations

ASLV Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle

ASSOCHAM Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry

AT&T American Telegraphic and Telephone Co. Ltd

ATC Air Traffic Control

ATM Automated Teller Machine, Adobe Type Manager

BARC Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

BBS Bulletin Board Service

BCG Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (anti TB Vaccine)

BENELUX Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg

BHP Brake Horse Power

BIFR Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction

BIND Berkeley Internat Name Domain

BIS Bank for International Settlement

BRO Border Road Organisation

BCWA British Council of World Affair

C&R Control and Reporting

C&W Cable and Wireless

C-in-c Commander in Chief

CAG Comptroller and Auditor General of India

CAPART Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology

CAT Career Aptitude Test, Common Admission Test, Computerized Avial Tomo-graphy

CBFC Central Board of Film Certification

CCW Convention of Conventional Weapon

CERN Council European Research Nucleare (European Laboratory for Nuclear Research)

CFC Chloro Fluoro Carbon

CFL Compact Fluorescent Lamps

CFSL Central Forensic Science Laboratory

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

CID Criminal Investigation Department

CII Confederation of Independent State

CIS Commonwealth of Independent State

CITU Centre of Indian Trade Unions

CNC Computerized Numeric Control

COFEPOSA Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Act

COMSAT Communications Satellite Corporation

CONCORD Council of North Indian States for Co-operation and Regional Development

COPRA Consumer Protection Act

CPR Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation

CRIS Centre for Railway Information System

CRISIL Credit Rating Information Services of India Ltd

CRR Cash Reserve Ratio

CRY Child Relief for You

CSIR Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

CTBT Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

CVR Cockpit Voice Recorder

CARE Co-operative for American Relief Everywhere

CASTDI Conference on the Application of Science and Technology to the Development of India

CCS Casuality Clearing Station

CHOGM Common Heads of Government Meeting

CWPC Central Water and Power Commission

CNG Compressed Natural Gas

DDT Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane

DNA Deoxyribo-nucleic Acid

DPEP District Primary Education Programme

DTH Direct to Home Service

E&OE Errors and Omissions Excepted

ECA Essential Commodities Act

ECG Electro Cardiogram

ECR Electron Cyclotron Resonance

EEG Exclusive Economic Zone

EFTA European Free Trade Association

ELISA Enzyme Linked Immuno-Sorbant Assay

EMRC Educational Media Research Centre

EOU Export Oriented Unit

EPABX Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange

EPZ Export Processing Zone

ER&DC Electronic Research and Development Centre

ERNET Educational and Research Network

ESA European Space Agency

ESCAP Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

ESMA Essential Services Maintenance Act

ESR Electron Spin Resonance

EURATOM European Atomic Community

EUTELSAT European Telecommunications Satellite

EEC European Economic Community

ESIS Employee State Insurance Scheme

ESRO European Space Research Organisation

EMG Electro Myograph

FAQ Fair Average Quality, Frequently Asked Questions

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

FBTR Fast Breeder Test Reactor

FBW Fly-By-Wire

FCI Food Corporation of India, Fertilizer Corporation of India

FCRA Foreign Contribution Regulation Act

FIDE Federation Internationale d'Eches

FIFA International Football Federation (Federation Internationale de football Association)

FIL First Institutional Investors

FIR First Information Report

FIRE Fully Integrated Robotised Engine

FLAG Fibre optic Link Around the Globe

FLC Foreign Legal Consultant

FM Frequency Modulation, Finance Ministry

FMCT Fissile Material Cut off Treaty

FPS Foot Pound Second, Fair Prince Shop

FII Foreign Institutional Investor

FBTR Fast Breeder Test Reactor

GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Practices

GATE Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering

GMT Greenwich Mean Time

GRAM Geo Referenced Area Management

GSLV Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle

GUI Graphical User Interface

HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus

HPRT High Resolution Picture Transmissions

HSD High Speed Diesel

HSRRSS High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Satellite

IA&AS Indian Audit and Accounts Services

IAAI International Airport Authority of India

IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

ICAR Indian Council of Agricultural Research

ICCR Indian Council for Cultural Relations

ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research

ICWA Indian Council of World Affairs

ILO International Labour Organisation

INS Indian Newspaper Society, Indian Naval Ship

INSAT Indian National Satellite

INTELSET International Telecommunication Satellite

IOC Indian Oil Corporation

IOY I Owe You

IPC Indian Penal Code

IPCL Indian Petro-chemicals Corporation Ltd

ISO International Standards Organisation

ISRO Indian Space Research Organisation

ITBP Indian Tibbetan Border Police

ITI Industrial Training Institute

IMEWS Integrated Missile Early Warning Satellites

ICRISAT International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics

KG Knight of Garter, Kindergarten

LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

LASIK Laser in Situ Keratomileusis

LLB Bachelor of Law (Leagum Baccalauseus)

LMG Large Megallanic Cloud

LPG Liguified Petroleum Gas

LSD Lysergic acid diethylamide

MASER Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emmission of Radiation

MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

Mme Madame (Mrs)

MOSFET Metal Oxide Semi-Conductor Field Effect Transistor

MOU Memorandum of Understanding

MVC Maha Vir Chakra

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASSCOM National Association of Software and Service Companies

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

NB Nota Bene (not well)

NCERT National Council of Educational Research

NDA National Defence Academy

NDC National Development Council

NGO Non-Government Organisation, Non-Gazetted Officer

NIMHANS National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Science

NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

NOC No Objection Certificate

NPT Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

NSUI National Students Union of India

NTPC National Thermal Power Corporation

OCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

OCR Optical Character Recognition

ODA Overseas Development Administration

OIC Organisation of Islamic Conference

OOP Object Oriented Programme

Op.cit Opero Citato (in the work cited)

OPV Oral Polio Vaccine

OXFAM Oxford Committee for Famine Relief

OPEC Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries

OAOEC Organisation of Arab Oil Exporting Countries

PAC Public Account Committee

PAL Phase Alternation Line

PCA Professional Chess Association

Perks Perquisites of Office

PERT Project Evaluation and Review Technique

PIB Press Information Bureau

PIL Public Interest Litigation

PIN Postal Index Number

PMUPEP Prime Ministers Urban Poverty Eradication Programme

POW Prisoner of War

PROTEM Pro-tempore (for the time being)

PSLV Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle

PSN Processor Serial Number

PVC Param Vir Chakra, Poly Vinyl Chloride

PARA Parliamentarian's Action for Removal of Apartheid

PEN (International Association of) Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists

PLF Plant Load Factor

QR Quantitative Restriction

R&D Research and Development

R&M Renovation and Modernisation

RADAR Radio Detecting and Ranging

RAW Research and Analysis Wing

RCC Reinforced Cement Concrete

RD Refer to Drawer

RDX Research Department Explosive (Cyclotrimethylin Trinitrate)

RH Rainwater Harvest

RNA Ribonucleic Acid

RSE Renewable Source of Energy

SAM Surface to Air Missile

SASA Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope

SAC Space Application Centre

SAPTA South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement

SASER Sound Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

SAT Scholastic Aptitude Test

SAVE SAARC Audio Visual Exchange

SCABA Self Contained Air Breathing Apparatus

SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface

SIDS Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Cribe Death)

SIFT Sperm Intra Fallopian Transfer

SPCA Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animal

SPECT Single Photon Emission Computed Technology

STQC Standardisation Testing and Quality Control

SUNFED Special United Nations Fund for Economic Development

SUN Sports Utility Vehicle

SLBM Sea Launched Ballistic Missile

STTA Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act

T&D Transmission and Distribution

TAFTA Trans Atlantic Free Trade Agreement

TDA Trade Development Authority

TERLS Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station

TIPS Technology Information Pilot System

TIPTOP Tape Input Tape Output

TLC Total Literacy Campaign

TMO Telegraphic Money Order

TNT Tri Nitro Toluene

TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language

TPM Total Productivity Maintenance

TQM Total Quality Management

TBD Torpedo Boat Destroyer

TSP Total Suspended Particulate

UCI Universal Childhood Immunisation

UCR Under Colour Removal

UNPF United Nation Population Fund

UNRRA United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

USAID United States Agency for International Development

VAT Value Added Tax

VHRR Very High Resolution Radiometer

VIRUS Vital Information Resources Under Seige

VSAT Very Small Arrival Terminal

VD Veneral Disease

VTOL Vertical Take Off and Landing

WDM World Debt Market

WIMP Weakly Interacting Massive Particle

WWF World Wide Fund (for nature)

XBT Expandable Bathy Thermographic

XPD X-Ray Photoelectron Diffraction

YMCA Young Men's Christian Association

YWCA Young Women's Christian Association

YMMV Your Mileage May Vary

ZIFT Zygote Intra Fallopian Transfer

ZIP Zone Improvement Plan

ZOPFAN Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality

ZETA Zero Energy Thermonuclear Agency

ZPG Zero Population Growth