| NABARD | National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development |
| SAPTA | South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement |
| SAFTA | South Asian Free Trade Agreement |
| SAARC | Soth Asian Association for Regional Co-Operation |
| TRIPS | Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights |
| ICAR | Indian Council of Agricultural Research |
| MGNREGA | The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act |
| ICJ | The International Court of Justice |
| IGMDP | Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme |
| ECSDF | Electronic Clearance Settlement and Depository Facility |
| ESCAP | Economic and Social Commission For Asia and Pacific |
| FERA | Foreign Exchange Regulation Act |
| COFEPOSA | Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Act |
| MISA | Maintenance of Internal Security Act |
| CRR | Cash Reserve Ratio |
| DDT | Dichloro Diphenyle Tri-chloroethane |
| DFDR | ‘Digital Flight Data Recorder (Black box)’ |
| ESMA | Essential Services Maintenance Act |
| FIPB | Foreign Investment Promotion Board |
| INTELSAT | International Telecommunication Satellite |
| INTERPOL | International Police Organisation |
| LoC | Line of Control (Pakistan) |
| LoAC | Line of Actual Control (China) |
| MFN | Most Favoured Nation |
| MRTPC | Monopoly and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission |
| MODVAT | Modified Value Added Tax |
| NEERI | National Environment Engineering Research Institute |
| NEFA | North-East Frontier Agency |
| SPICMC | Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical music and culture |
| CAD | Computer Aided Design |
| CAM | Computer Aided Manufacturing |
| CDAC | Centre for Development of Advanced Parallel Computing |
| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access |
| COBOL | Common Business Oriented Language |
| DOS | Disk Operating Systems |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| FAX | Far Away Xerox |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format |
| HTTP | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure |
| IC | Integrated Circuit |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| JPEG | Joint photographic Experts Group |
| MAC | Media Access Control |
| MIPS | Millions of Instructions Per Second |
| MPEG | Motion Picture Experts group |
| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network |
| MODEM | Modulation Demodulation |
| OMR | Optical Mark Reader |
