| AACSR |
Aluminum Alloy Conductor Steel Reinforced |
| AAI |
Airports Authority of India |
| AAT |
Acid Amine Technologists |
| ACN |
Acrynolonitrile |
| ACP |
Assured Career Progression |
| AHP |
Ash handling plant |
| APGPCL |
Andhra Pradesh Gas Power Corporation Limited |
| APGST |
Andhra Pradesh General Sales Tax |
| APTRANSCO |
Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Limited |
| ASI |
Aviation Systems International |
| ASOR |
Above Schedule of Rates |
| ATS |
Associated Transmission System |
| AYCL |
Andrew Yule & Company Limited |
| B and C |
Briquetting and Carbonisation |
| B.Q. Plates |
Boiler Quality Plates |
| BDEP |
Basic Design and Engineering Package |
| BEC |
bid evaluation criteria |
| BEML |
Bharat Earth Movers Limited |
| BHP |
BHP Coal Pty. Limited |
| BIFR |
Bureau of Industrial and Financial Reconstruction |
| BGE |
Birla GTM Entrerpose Limited |
| BLAC |
Board Level Audit Committee |
| BMIL |
Bluegold Maritech (International) Limited |
| BPCL |
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited |
| BSF |
Black Staple Fibre |
| BSL |
Bokaro Steel Plant |
| C&F |
Clearing and forwarding |
| CBI |
Central Bureau of Investigation |
| CBL |
Cement Bond Log |
| CBM |
Coal Bed Methane |
| CBMT |
Cauvery Basin Marketing Terminal |
| CBR |
Cauvery Basin Refinery |
| CCL |
Central Coalfields Limited |
| CDA |
Central dearness allowance |
| CDFS |
Closed Die Forging Shop |
| CEA |
Central Electricity Authority |
| CFBC |
Circulating fluidised bed combustion |
| CFRI |
Central Fuel Research Institute |
| CHP |
Coal handling plant |
| CIF |
Cost, insurance and freight |
| CIL |
Coal India Limited |
| CISF |
Central Industrial Security Force |
| CIT |
Kolkata Improvement Trust |
| CIT |
Commissioner of Income Tax |
| CMD |
Chairman and Managing Director |
| CMPDIL |
Central Mine Planning & Designing Institute Limited |
| CPT |
Chennai Port Trust |
| CVC |
Central Vigilance Commission |
| CWC |
Central Warehousing Corporation |
| DAL |
Double Action Legs |
| DEPB |
Duty Entitlement Pass Book |
| DFR |
Detailed feasibility report |
| DG |
Diesel generating |
| DGFT |
Director General of Foreign Trade |
| DGMS |
Director General of Mine Safety |
| DHEP |
Dulhasti Hydroelectric Project |
| DISP |
Ductile iron spun pipes |
| DM |
De-mineraliser |
| DOC |
De-oiled cake |
| DOF |
Department of Fertilizers |
| DOT |
Department of Telecommunications |
| DPE |
Department of Public Enterprises |
| DPR |
Detailed project report |
| DSB |
Dumez Sogea Borie |
| DHDS |
Diesel Hydro Desulphurization |
| DVB |
Delhi Vidyut Board |
| DVC |
Damodar Valley Corporation |
| ED |
Excise duty |
| EIL |
Engineers India Limited |
| EJC |
Empowered Joint Committee |
| EL |
Earth Level |
| EM |
Euro-Missile GIE of France |
| EMD |
Earnest money deposit |
| ERBC |
Eastern Regional Business Centre |
| ETI |
Enkay Texofood Industries Limited |
| FACT |
Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Limited |
| FC |
French Consortium |
| FCI |
Food Corporation of India |
| FCIL |
Fertilizer Corporation of India Limited |
| FICC |
Fertilizer Industry Co-ordination Committee |
| FIR |
First information report |
| EJL |
Enterprise Jean Lafebvre |
| FLP |
Floor level price |
| FO |
Furnace Oil |
| FOB |
Free on Board |
| EPFO |
Employee’s Provident Fund Organisation |
| FR |
Feasibility report |
| FSA |
Fuel Supply Agreement |
| FSD |
Food Storage Depot |
| GAIL |
Gas Authority of India Limited |
| GEB |
Gujarat Electricity Board |
| GGS |
Group gathering station |
| GIC |
General Insurance Corporation of India |
| GIPCL |
Gujarat Industrial Power Company Limited |
| GMK |
Gar Majarua Khas |
| GOI |
Government of India |
| GSA |
General sales agents |
| GSLI |
Group Saving Linked Insurance |
| GTG |
Gas Turbine Generator |
| ham |
Hectare metre |
| HDPE |
High density poly ethylene |
| HPCL |
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited |
| HPL |
Half pay leave |
| HPPC |
High Power Pay Committee |
| HPSEB |
Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board |
| HSCL |
Hindustan Steelworks Construction Corporation Limited |
| HSD |
High Speed Diesel |
| HT |
High tension |
| HTC |
Handling and transport contract |
| IOCL |
Indian Oil Corporation Limited |
| IOTL |
Indian Oil Tanking Limited |
| IPL |
Indian Potash Limited |
| IPP |
Independent Power Producer |
| IRCON |
IRCON International Limited |
| IRS |
Indian Register of Shipping |
| ITD |
Income Tax Department |
| JSM |
Japanese Steel Mills |
| JVC |
Joint venture company |
| JY |
Japanese Yen |
| KEB |
Karnataka Electricity Board |
| KISCO |
Kudremukh Iron and Steel Company Limited |
| KMTS |
Kishenpur-Moga transmission system |
| KN |
Kilo Newton |
| LC |
Letter of credit |
| LCMD |
Lakh cubic metres per day |
| LD |
Liquidated damages |
| LIC |
Life Insurance Corporation of India |
| LNG |
Liquified Natural Gas |
| LOI |
Letter of intent |
| LPA |
Loss Prevention Association |
| LPG |
Liquified Petroleum Gas |
| LSLP |
Low sulphur low phosphorous pig iron |
| LTA |
Long term agreement |
| LWD |
Logging while drilling |
| Mbps |
Megabyte per second |
| MECL |
Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited |
| MFL |
Madras Fertilizers Limited |
| MG |
Meter gauge |
| MHRD |
Ministry of Human Resources Development |
| MIM |
Mount Isa Mines Limited |
| MMR |
Mean maximum reflectance of vitrinite |
| MOP&NG |
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas |
| MOS |
Ministry of Steel |
| MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding |
| MRLF |
Minimum Reserve Licence Fee |
| MS |
Motor spirit |
| MSDPs |
Marine Special Declaration Policies |
| MSTC |
Metal Scrap Trade Corporation Limited |
| MT |
Metric tonnes |
| MTB |
Machine Tools Division |
| MTK |
Machine Tools Division, Kalamasery |
| MTPA |
Metric tonnes per annum |
| NCWA |
National Coal Wage Agreements |
| NEERI |
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur |
| NHPC |
National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Limited |
| NIA |
The New India Assurance Company Limited |
| NIT |
Notice inviting tenders |
| NJHP |
Nathpa Jhakri Hydroelectric Project |
| NJTS |
Nathpa Jhakri transmission system |
| NSC |
National Seeds Corporation Limited |
| NTP |
Notice to Proceed |
| NY |
New York |
| O&M |
Operation and Maintenance |
| OCAL |
Oceanic Coal Australia Limited |
| OCC |
Oil Coordination Committee |
| OD |
Overdraft |
| ODCs |
Over dimensional consignments |
| ONGC |
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited |
| OPPL |
Omega Petro Product Limited |
| OSCOM |
Orissa Sands Complex |
| OSV |
Offshore Supply Vessels |
| PDH |
Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy |
| PF |
Provident Fund |
| PGCIL |
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited |
| PLL |
Petronet LNG Limited |
| POL |
Petroleum, oil and lubricants |
| PPP |
Primary Pricing Point |
| PSE |
Public Sector Enterprise |
| PSEB |
Punjab State Electricity Board |
| PSF |
Polyester Staple Fibre |
| PSP |
Process Steam Plant |
| PSU |
Propylene separation unit |
| RAL |
Richfield Aquatech Limited |
| RED |
Regional Executive Director |
| RGI |
Rich Group International |
| RINL |
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited |
| RLS |
Rapid loading system |
| SASL |
Schlumberger Asia Services Limited |
| SEB |
State Electricity Board |
| SEDCO |
SEDCO Forex International Drilling Inc. |
| SFC |
Standing Finance Committee |
| SHELL |
SHELL Coal Pty. Limited |
| SOI |
Survey of India |
| SSL |
Seashore Logistics Private Limited |
| STC |
The State Trading Corporation of India Limited |
| TAC |
Tariff Advisory Committee |
| TC |
Tender Committee |
| TDI |
TDI International India Limited |
| TDS |
Tax deducted at source |
| TG |
Turbo Generator |
| THEP |
Tehri Hydroelectric Project |
| TMT |
Thousand Metric Tonnes |
| TNEB |
Tamil Nadu Electricity Board |
| TNPCB |
Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board |
| TPE |
Technopromexport |
| UTI |
Unit Trust of India |
| VDL |
Variable Density Log |
| VRS |
Voluntary Retirement Scheme |
| WAVE |
Wave Technologies Limited |
| WMT |
Wet Metric Tonnes |
| WRBC |
Western Regional Business Centre |