| Abbreviation | Definition |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| BSCS | DESACS RBI Basel Committee on Banking Supervision |
| BSE | Bombay Stock Exchange |
| 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 |
| DCA | Department of Companies Affairs |
| DCB | Demand Collection and Balance |
| DCCB | District Central Cooperative Bank |
| DCM | Department of Currency Management |
| DD | Demand DraftDDSData Dissemination Standards |
| DEIO | Department of External Investments and Operations |
| DESACS | Department of Statistical Analysis & Computer Services |
| DGBA | Department of Government and Bank Accounts |
| 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 |
| ETF | Exchange Traded Fund |
| EUR | Euro |
| EXIM Bank | Export Import Bank of India |
| FC | Finance Commision |
| FCCB | Foreign Currency Convertible Bond |
| FCNR(B) | Foreign Currency Currency Non-Repatriable(Banks) |
| FCNRA | Foreign Currency Currency Non-Repatriable Account |
| 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 |
| FPI | Flow Of Funds |
| FRA | Foreign Portfolio Investment |
| FRBM | Forward Rate Agreement |
| FRN | Fiscal Responsibility and Budget |
| FWG | First Working Group on Money |
| FX | Foreign Exchange |
| 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 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 |
| IDFC | Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation |
| 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 |
| IFS | International Financial Statistics |
| IFSC | Indian Financial System Code |
| 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 |
| IPO | Initial Public Offer |
| IRB I | Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India |
| IRDA | Insurance Regulatory Developement Authority |
| 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 |
| LT | Long Term |
| LTO | Long Term Operation |
| M1 | Narrow Money |
| M3 | Broad Money |
| MA | Moving Average |
| MCA | Ministry of Company Affairs |
| MF | Mutual Fund |
| 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 |
| MRP | Maximum Retail Price |
| 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 |
| NRE | Non-Resident External |
| NRG | Non-Resident Government |
| NRI | Non-Resident Indian |
| NSC | National Statistical Commission |
| NSE | National Stock Exchange |
| 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 of 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 |
| 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 |
| SWG | Second Working Group on Money Supply |
| TBs | Treasury Bills |
| TC | Temporary Change |
| TDSAT | Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate Tribunal |
| TRAI | Telecom Regulatory Authority of India |
| TT | Telegraphic Transfer |
| UBB | Uniform Balance Book |
| UBD | Urban Banks Department |
| UCB | Urban Cooperative Bank |
| UCN | Uniform Code Number |
| ULIP | Unit Linked Insurance Policy |
| US | United States |
| USD | US Dollars |
| USE | United Stock Exchange |
| UTI | Unit Trust of India |
| VC | Venture Capital |
| WPI | Wholesale Price Index |
| WSS | Weekly Statistical Supplement |
| YTM | Yield to Maturity |
| ZO | Zonal Office |
