Ach. Achievement
AMA Assessment and Monitoring Authority
AMASR Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains
AMC Agricultural Marketing Committees
ANM Auxiliary Nurse Midwife
AP
Andhra Pradesh
ASCB All Scheduled Commercial Bank
ASI Archaeological Survey of India
Bih Bihar
BPL Below Poverty Line
BPO Business Process Outsourcing
BSF Border Security Force
CAT Common Admission Test
CBR Crude Birth Rate
CBSE Central Board of Secondary Education
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CISF Central Industrial Security Force
CMD Chief Managing Director
CPIL Consumer Price Indices for Labour
CPS Central Plan Schemes
CRPF Central Reserve Police Force
CSS Centrally Sponsored Schemes
CWC Central Wakf Committee
D.Ed. Diploma in Education
DBL Double Below the Poverty Line
DDA Delhi Development Authority
DRIP District Rural Industrialization Project
EOC Equal Opportunity Commission
FMS Faculty of Management Studies
GARs Graduate Attainment Rates
GDCF(N) Gross Domestic Capital Formation (Nominal)
GDP(N) Gross Domestic Product (Nominal)
GDP Gross Domestic Product
HCR Head Count Ratio
H-Gen Hindu General
HLC High Level Committee
H-OBC
Hindu Other Backward Classes
H-SCs/STs
Hindu Scheduled castes/Scheduled Tribes
H-UC
Hindu Upper Caste
HUDCO Housing and Urban Development Corporation
IAS Indian Administrative Service
ICDS Integrated Child Development Services
ICSSR Indian Council of Social Science Research
IFS Indian Foreign Services
IIM Indian Institute of Management
IIPS International Institute for Population Sciences
IIT Indian Institute of Technology
IMR Infant Mortality Rate
IPS Indian Police Services
ITI Industrial Training Institute
ITPO India Trade Promotion Organization
J&K Jammu and Kashmir
Jhar Jharkhand
JNNURM Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
JNV Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya
JNVST Jawahar Navodaya Selection Test
JPC Joint Parliamentary Committee
Kar Karnataka
L&DO Land & Development Officer
LPG Liquid Petroleum Gas
LSG Local Self Governments
Maha Maharashtra
MBC Most Backward Class
MCR Matriculation Completion Rates
MDG Millennium Development Goals
MDI Management Development Institute
MDM Midday Meal
MFI Micro-Financial Institutions
MHRD Ministry of Human Resource Development
MIS Management Information Systems
MLA Member of Legislative Assembly
MMR Maternal Mortality Rate
MOSS Maya Organic Support Services
MP
Member of Parliament
MPCE Monthly Per Capita Expenditure
MRPM Mixed Reference Period Method
MYS Mean years of Schooling
NABARD National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development
NAS National Academy of Sciences
NBCFDC National Backward Classes Finance and Development
Corporation
NBD National Data Bank
NCAER National Council of Applied Economic Research
NCB National Backward Classes Commission
NCERT National Council of Educational Research and Training
NCHS National Centre for Health Statistics
NCM National Commission for Minorities
NCT National Capital Territory
NCTE National Council of Teacher Education
NFHS National Family Health Survey
NGO Non-Government Organization
NHRC National Human Rights Commission
NIEPA National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
NIMC National Implementation and Monitoring Committee
NMDFC National Minority Development and Finance Corporations
NPE National Policy on Education
NSAP National Social Assistance Programme
NSSO National Sample Survey Organization
NVs Navodaya Vidyalayas
OBC Other Backward Class
ORG Operations Research Group
P.G. Post Graduate
PF
Provident Fund
Ph.D Doctor of Philosophy
PLI Primary Lending Institution
PMO Prime Minister’s Office
Pop Population
PrSB Private Sector Bank
PSA Priority Sector Advance
PSU Public Sector Undertaking
PUC Pre-University College
PuSB Public Sector Bank
RBI Reserve Bank of India
RCA Rent Control Act
RIC Rural Industrial Cluster Schemes
RRA Race Relations Act
RRB Regional Rural Bank
SC
Scheduled Caste
SCs Scheduled Castes
SCA State Channelizing Agency
SCB Scheduled Commercial Bank
SEBC Social and Educationally Backward Classes
SHG Self Help Group
SIDBI Small Industries Development Bank of India
SJSRY Swarna Jayanati Shahri Rozgar Yojana
SLBC State Level Bankers Committee
SPSC State Public Service Commission
SRC Socio-Religious Category
SSA Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
SSB Sashastra Seema Bal
SSI Small Scale Industry
ST
Scheduled Tribe
STs Scheduled Tribes
TB
Tuberculosis
TFR Total Fertility Rate
U.G. Under Graduate
U5MR Under Five Mortality Rate
UGC University Grants Commission
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization
UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund
UP
Uttar Pradesh
UPSC Union Public Service Commission
UR
Unemployment Rate
URP Uniform Reference Period
UT
Union Territory
WHO World Health Organization
WPR Work Participation Rate/Ratio
XLRI Xavier Labour Relations Institute
