- ASSOCHAM The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India
- ASTO Association of Sea Training Organizations
- DAP Diammonium Phosphate (Urea)
- CENVAT Central Value Added Tax
- GDR Global Depositary Receipt
- MRPL Mangalore Refineries & Petrochemicals Limited
- APM Administered Price Mechanism
- AICPI(IW) All India Consumer Price Index (Industrial Workers)
- ACR Annual Confidential Report
- BEL Bharat Electronics Limited
- BHEL Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
- BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
- BIFR Board for Industrial and Financial Restructuring
- BRPSE Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises
- BPE Bureau of Public Enterprises
- BPO Business Process Outsourcing
- CPS Cash Based Profit Sharing
- CBDT Central Board for Direct Taxes
- CDA Central Dearness Allowance
- CPC Central Pay Commission
- CPSE Central Public Sector Enterprises
- CMD Chairman-cum-Managing Director
- CEO Chief Executive Officer
- CFO Chief Finance Officer
- COO Chief Operating Officer
- CCA City Compensatory Allowance
- CAG Comptroller & Auditor General of India
- CRS Compulsory Retirement Scheme
- CII Confederation of Indian Industries
- CTC Cost to the Company
- DA Dearness Allowance
- DPS Deferred Profit Sharing
- DPE Department of Public Enterprises
- ESPP Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- EPS Employees Pension Scheme
- ESOP Employees Stock Option Plan
- ERP Enterprises Resource Planning
- FMCG Fast Moving Consumer Goods
- FICCI Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- FRBM Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management
- FDI Foreign Direct Investment
- FEMA Foreign Exchange Management Act
- FERA Foreign Exchange Regulation Act
- GAIL Gas Authority of India Ltd
- GDP Gross Domestic Product
- HoD Head of Department
- HPPC High Power Pay Committee
- HAL Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
- HMT Hindustan Machine Tools
- HRA House Rent Allowance
- HRD Human Resource Development
- IIM Indian Institute of Management
- IIT Indian Institute of Technology
- IOC Indian Oil Corporation
- ISM Indian School of Mines
- ITI Indian Telephones Industries
- IDA Industrial Dearness Allowance
- IT Information Technology
- ITES Information Technology Enabled Services
- IPE Institute of Public Enterprises
- IS Industry Segment
- ISO International Standards Organization
- LTC Leave Travel Concession
- LIC Life Insurance Corporation of India
- LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas
- MTNL Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd
- MOU Memorandum of Understanding
- M&A Mergers & Acquisitions
- MSTC Metals & Scrap Trading Corporation
- MMTC Minerals & Metal Trading Corporation
- MRTP Monopolies & Restrictive Trade Practices
- MNC Multi National Company
- NALCO National Aluminium Company
- NCMP National Common Minimum Programme
- NFC National Fire College
- NIETE National Institute of Industrial Engineering.
- NLC National Labour Commission
- NRF National Renewal Fund
- NSS National Sample Survey
- NTPC National Thermal Power Corporation
- NEP New Economic Policy
- NPA Non Practicing Allowance
- NRI Non Resident Indians
- NUS Non Unionised Supervisors
- OM Office Memorandum
- ONGC Oil & Natural Gas Corporation
- PRC Pay Revision Committee
- PMS Performance Management System
- PRP Performance Related Payment
- PF Provident Fund
- PDS Public Distribution System
- PESB Public Enterprises Selection Board
- PSE Public Sector Enterprise
- PSU Public Sector Undertaking
- REC (NIT) Regional Engineering College
- R&D Research and Development
- SEBI Securities Exchange Board of India
- SS Service Sector
- SICA Sick Industrial Companies Act
- SEZ Special Economic Zone
- SCOPE Standing Conference of Public Enterprises
- SAIL Steel Authority of India Ltd
- SAR Stock Appreciation Right
- VAT Value Added Tax
- VP Variable Pay
- VER Very Early Retirement
- VSNL Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd
- VRS Voluntary Retirement Scheme
- WTO World Trade Organisation