ACF - Auto-Correlation Function
AD - Authorized Dealer
ADB - Asian Development Bank
ADR - American Depository Receipt
AFS - Annual Financial Statement
AGM - Annual General Meeting
AIRCSC - All India Rural Credit Survey Committee
AO - Additive Outliers
AR - Auto Regression
ARIMA - Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average
AFS - Available For Sale
ASSOCHAM - Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM - Automated Teller Machine
BIS - Bank for International Settlements
BOI - Bank of India
BoP - Balance of Payments
BPM5 - Balance of Payments Manual, 5th edition
BPSD - Balance of Payments Division, DESACS, RBI
BSCS - Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
BSR - Basic Statistical Returns
CAD - Capital Account Deficit
CAG - Controller and Auditor General of India
CBS - Consolidated Banking Statistics
CC - Cash Credit
CD - Certificate of Deposit
CD Ratio - Credit Deposit Ratio
CDBS - Committee of Direction on Banking Statistics
CF - Company Finance
CFRA - Combined Finance and Revenue
➨ Accounts
CGRA - Currency and Gold Revaluation Account
CII - Confederation of Indian Industries
CO - Capital Outlay
CP - Commercial Paper
CPI - Consumer Price Index
CPI-IW - Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers
CR - Capital Receipts
CRAR - Capital to Risk Weighted Asset
➨ Ratio
CRR - Cash Reserve Ratio
CSIR - Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
CSO - Central Statistical Organisation
CVC - Central Vigilance Commission
DAP - Development Action Plan
DBOD - Department of Banking Operations and Development
DBS - Department of Banking Supervision, RBI
DCA - Department of Company Affairs, (Now known as Ministry of Companies Affairs, MCA)
➨ Government of India
DCB - Demand Collection and Balance
DCCB - District Central Cooperative Bank
DCM - Department of Currency Management, RBI
DD - Demand Draft
DDS - Data Dissemination Standards
DEIO - Department of External Investments and Operations
DESACS - Department of Statistical Analysis & Computer Services, RBI
DGBA - Department of Government and Bank Accounts, RBI
DGCI&S - Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics
DI - Direct Investment
DICGC - Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation of India
DID - Discharge of Internal Debt
DMA - Departmentalized Ministries Account
DRI - Differntial Rate of Interest Scheme
DSBB - Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board
DVP - Delivery versus Payment
ECB - External Commercial Borrowing
ECB - European Central Bank
ECGC - Export Credit and Guarantee Corporation
ECS - Electronic Clearing Scheme
EDMU - External Debt Management Unit
EEA - Exchange Equalization Account
EEC - European Economic Community
EEFC - Exchange Earners Foreign Currency
EFR - Exchange Fluctuation Reserve
EPF - Employees Provident Fund
EUR - Euro
EXIM Bank - Export Import Bank of India
FCA - Foreign Currency Assets
FCCB - Foreign Currency Convertible Bond
FCNR(B) - Foreign Currency Non-resident(Banks)
FCNRA - Foreign Currency Non-resident Account
FCNRD - Foreign Currency Non-Repatriable Deposit
FDI - Foreign Direct Investment
FEMA - Foreign Exchange Management Act
FI - Financial Institution
FICCI - Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
FII - Foreign Institutional Investor
FIMMDA - Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India
FISIM - Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured
FLAS - Foreign Liabilities and Assets Survey
FOF - Flow Of Funds
FPI - Foreign Portfolio Investment
FRA - Forward Rate Agreement
FRBM - Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003
FRN - Floating Rate Note
FSS - Farmers’ Service Societies
FWG - First Working Group on Money supply
GDP - Gross Domestic Product
GDR - Global Depository Receipt
GFD - Gross Fiscal Deficit
GFS - Government Finance Statistics
GIC - General Insurance Corporation
GLS - Generalized Least Squares
GNIE - Government Not Included Elsewhere
GoI - Government of India
GPD - Gross Primary Deficit
G-Sec - Government Securities
HDFC - Housing Development Finance Corporation
HFT - Held For Trading
HICP - Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices
HO - Head Office
HUDCO - Housing & Urban Development Corporation
IBRD - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
IBS - International Banking Statistics
ICAR - Indian Council of Agricultural Research
ICICI - Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India
ICMR - Indian Council of Medical Research
IDB - India Development Bonds
IDBI - Industrial Development Bank of India
IDD - Industrial Development Department
IFAD - International Fund for Agricultural Development
IFC - International Finance Corporation
IFC(W) - International Finance Corporation (Washington)
IFCI - Industrial Finance Corporation of India
IFR - Investment Fluctuation Reserve Account
IFS - International Financial Statistics
IGLS - Iterative Generalized Least Squares
IIBI - Industrial Investment Bank of India
IIP - Index of Industrial Production
IIP/InIP - International Investment Position
IMD - India Millennium Deposits
IMF - International Monetary Fund
IN - India
INR - Indian Rupee
IOTT - Input-Output Transaction Table
IP - Interest Payment
IRBI - Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India
ISDA - International Swaps and Derivative Association
ISIC - International Standard Industrial Classification
ISO - International Standards Organization
ITRS - International Transaction Reporting System
IWGEDS - International Working Group on External Debt Statistics
KVIC - Khadi & Village Industries Corporation
LAF - Liquidity Adjustment Facility
LAMPS - Large-sized Adivasi Multipurpose Societies
LAS - Loan & Advances by States
LBD - Land Development Bank
LBS - Locational Banking Statistics
LERMS - Liberalised Exchange Rate Management System
LIC - Life Insurance Corporation of India
LS - Level Shift
LT - Long Term
LTO - Long Term Operation
M1 - Narrow Money
M3 - Broad Money
MA - Moving Average
MCA - Ministry of Company Affairs
MIGA - Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
MIS - Management Information System
MMSE - Minimum Mean Squared Errors
MoF - Ministry of Finance
MOF - Master Office File
MRM - Monitoring and Review Mechanism
MSS - Market Stabilisation Scheme
MT - Mail Transfer
MTM - Mark-To-Market
NABARD - National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
NAC(LTO) - National Agricultural Credit (Long Term Operatiion)
NAIO - Non Administratively Independent Office
NAS - National Account Statistics
NASSCOM - National Association of Software and Services Companies
NBC - Non-Banking Companies
NBFC - Non Banking Financial Companies
NEC - Not Elsewhere Classified
NEER - Nominal Effective Exchange Rate
NFA - Non-Foreign Exchange Assets
NFD - Net Fiscal Deficit
NGO - Non-Governmental Organization
NHB - National Housing Bank
NIC - National Industrial Classification
NIF - Note Issuance Facility
NNML - Net Non-Monetary Liabilities
NPA - Non-Performing Assets
NPD - Net Primary Deficit
NPRB - Net Primary Revenue Balance
NPV - Net Present Value
NR(E)RA - Non-Resident (External) Rupee Account
NR(NR)RA - Non-Resident (Non-Repatriable) Rupee Account
NRE - Non-Resident External
NRG - Non-Resident Government
NRI - Non-Resident Indian
NSC - National Statistical Commission
NSSF - National Small Savings Fund
OD - Over Draft
ODA - Official Development Assistance
OECD - Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
OECO - Organisaton for Economic Co-operation
OFI - Other Financial Institutions
OLTAS - OnLine Tax Accounting System
OMO - Open Market Operations
OSCB - Other Indian Scheduled Commercial Bank
PACF - Partial Auto-Correlation Function
PACS - Primary Agriculture Credit Societies
PCARDB - Primary Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank
PD - Primary Deficit
PDAI - Primary Dealers Association of India
PDO - Public Debt Office
PDO-NDS - Public Debt Office-cum-Negotiated Dealing System
PDs - Primary Dealers
PES - Public Enterprises Survey
PF - Provident Fund
PIO - Persons of Indian Origin
PNB - Punjab National bank
PO - Principal Office
PRB - Primary Revenue Balance
PSE - Public Sector Enterprises
PUC - Paid Up Capital
QRR - Quick Review Report
RBI - Reserve Bank of India
RD - Revenue Deficit
RDBMS - Relational Database Management System
RE - Revenue Expenditure
REC - Rural Electrification Corporation
REER - Real Effective Exchange Rate
RFC - Residents Foreign Currency
RIB - Resurgent India Bonds
RIDF - Rural Infrastructure Development Fund
RLA - Recoveries of Loans & Advances
RLC - Repayment of Loans to Centre
RMB - Renminbi (Chinese)
RNBC - Residuary Non-Banking Companies
RO - Regional Office
RoCs - Registrars of Companies
RPA - Rupee Payment Area
RPCD - Rural Planning and Credit Department, RBI
RR - Revenue Receipts
RRB - Regional Rural Bank
RTP - Reserve Tranche Position
RUF - Revolving Underwriting Facility
RWA - Risk Weighted Asset
SAM - Social Accounting Matrix
SAS - Statistical Analysis System
SBI - State Bank of India
SC - Schedule Caste
SCARDB - State Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank
SCB - State Cooperative Bank
SCB - Scheduled Commercial Bank
SCS - Size Class Strata
SDDS - Special Data Dissemination Standards
SDR - Special Drawing Right
SEBI - Securities and Exchange Board of India
SEBs - State Electricity Boards
SFC - State Financial Corporation
SGL - Subsidiary General Ledger
SGSY - Swarnajayanthi Gram Swarrojgar Yojana
SHGs - Self-Help Groups
SIDBI - Small Industries Development Bank of India
SIDC - State Industrial Development Corporation
SI-SPA - Systems Improvement Scheme under Special Project Agriculture
SJSRY - Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojana
SLR - Statutory Liquidity Ratio
SLRS - Scheme for Liberation & Rehabilitation of Scavangers
SMG - Standing Monitoring Group
SNA - System of National Accounts
SRWTO - Small road & Water Transport Operators
SSI - Small-Scale Industries
SSSBEs - Small Scale Service & Business Enterprises
ST - Schedule Tribe
SWG - Second Working Group on Money Supply
TBs - Treasury Bills
TC - Temporary Change
TT - Telegraphic Transfer
UBB - Uniform Balance Book
UBD - Urban Banks Department
UCB - Urban Cooperative Bank
UCN - Uniform Code Number
US - United States
USD - US Dollars
UTI - Unit Trust of India
VC - Venture Capital
WGMS - Working Group on Money Supply:
➨ Analytics and Methodology of Compilation
WPI - Wholesale Price Index
WSS - Weekly Statistical Supplement
YTM - Yield to Maturity
ZO - Zonal Office