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A&A
AACR
AADT
AAI
AC
ACL
ADINET
AFA
AGP
AI
AI
AIAA
AIADMK
AIANSF
AICTE
AIDS
AIIMS
AIR
AITUC
ALA
ALG
ALU
AMC
ANC
ANN
ANSI
APE
APM
AQCR
ARPA
ASCII
ASEM
ASLV
ASP
ATA
ATC
ATM
ATR
ATR
AU
AVRC
BAE
BARC
BBC
BCC
BCCI
BEA
BEd

Astronomy And Astrophysics

Anglo American Cataloguing Rules
Average Annual Daily Traffic
Airport Authority of India
Alternate Current
Access Control List
Ahmedabad Library Network
Annual Funding Agreement
Asom Gana Parishad
Air India
Artificial Intelligence
American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics
All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Alaska Native Summary File
All India Council for Technical Education
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
All India Institute of Medical Science
All India Radio
All India Trade Union Congress
American Library Association
Australian Libraries Gateway
Arithmetic and Logic Unit
Annual Maintenance Contract
African National Congress
African Neural Network
American National Standards Institute
Area of Potential Effect
Atmospheric Particle Monitor
Air Quality Control Region
Archaeological Resources Protection Act
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Asia Europe Meeting
Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle
Active server page
Advanced Technology Attachment
Air Traffic Control
Automated Teller Machine
Automated Traffic Recorder
Action Taken Report
Astronomical Units
Audio Visual Research Centre
British Aerospace
Bhaba Atomic Research Centre
British Broadcasting Corporation
Blind Carbon Copy
Board of Cricket Control in India
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bachelor of Education

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BG
BHEL
BHEL
BIA
BIOS
BIS
BIT
BJP
BL
BLCMP
BLO
BLOB
BLS
BNB
BNSC
BOI
BPR
BRAC
BSE
BSF
BSP
C&C
CA
CAD
CAD
CADA
CALEA
CALIBER
CAN
CAN/OLE
CAPS
CAS
CAT
CBI
CBR
CBSE
CC-AEC
CCF
CCRP
CD
CDA
CDMA
CD-R
CD-ROM
CD-RW
CDS/ISIS
CEQ
CERCLA
CESQG
CFR
CFTRI

Broad Gauge (trains)

Bharat Electronics Limited
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Basic Input Output System
Bureau of Indian Standards
Business Process Outsourcing
Bharatiya Janata Party
Bachelor of Law
Birmingham Libraries Co-operative Mechanization Project
Binary Large Objects
Binary Large Object
Bureau of Labour Statistics
British National Bibliography
British National Space Centre
Bureau of Investigation
Business Process Re-engineering
Base Realignment and Closure Act
Bombay Stock Exchange
Border Security Force
Bahujan Samaj Party
Computer and Communication
Chartered Accountant
Command Area Development
Computer Aided Design
Command Area Development Authority
Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies
Convention for Automation of Libraries in Education and Research
Calcium Ammonium Nitrate
Canadian Online Enquiry Service
Content, Abstract, Photocopy Service
Current Awareness Service
Common Admission Test
Central Bureau of Investigation
Cosmic Background Radiation
Central Board of Secondary Education
Casino Closes and All Enterprises Close
Common Communication Format
Cazenovia Community Resource Plan
Compact Disk
Child Development Associate
Code Division Multiple Access
Compact Disc Recordable
Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
Compact Disc Re-Writable
Computerised Documentation System / Integrated Sets of Information System
Council on Environmental Quality
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator
Code of Federal Regulations
Centre for Food and Technology Related Industries

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CGI
CID
CII
CISER
CISTI
CLASS
CM
CO
COD
COMSAT
COPSAT
CPI (M)
CPI (ML)
CPI
CPU
CPWD
CRIS
CSIR
CTO
CU
CV
CWA
CWD
DA
DAE
DBMS
DC
DD
DDC
DDR
DELNET
DEM
DESIDOC
DFAS
DHE
DIG
DK
DL
DMA
DNA
DNL
DoT
DRDO
DRTC
DST
DTH
DTP
DTS
DU
DVC
DVD

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Common Gateway Interface

Criminal Investigation Department
Confederation of Indian Industry
Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research
Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
Computerized Local Accident Surveillance System
Chief Minister
Carbon Monoxide
Cash On Delivery
Communications Satellite
Content of Periodicals in Science and Technology
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
Communist Party of India
Central Processing Unit
Central Public Works Department
Centre for Railway Information System
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Commercial Tax Officer
Control Unit
Curriculum Vitae
Clean Water Act
Chronic Wasting Disease
Dearness Allowance
Department of Atomic Energy
Database Management System
Direct Current
Doordarshan
Dewey Decimal Classification
Double Data Rate
Developing Library Network
Digital Elevation Models
Defense Scientific Information and Documentation Centre
Defense Finance and Accounting Services
Department of Higher Education
Deputy Inspector General
Dravida Kazhagam
Digital Library
Direct Memory Access
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Day-Night Sound Level
Department of Telecommunications
Defence Research and Development Organisation
Documentation Research and Training Institute
Department of Science and Technology
Direct to Home
Desk Top Publishing
Digital Theatre System
Dibrugarh University
Damodar Valley Corporation
Digital Versatile/Video Disc

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DVD-ROM
EAS
ECA
ECG
ECL
EDI
EDP
EIS
E-MAIL
EMU
ENIAC
ENS
EOF
ERNET
ESP
ETT
EVR
FAO
FAQ
FBI
FCI
FIFA
FIR
FIRE
FM
FM
FOIL
FRS
FTE
FTEP
FTP
GAIL
GAO
GAS
GATE
GATS
GB
GB
GDP
GED
GEF
GIGO
GIS
GO
GOC
GOC
GoI
GPS
GRE
GSI
GSLV

Digital Video Disc - Read Only Memory

Electronic Article Surveillance
Essential Commodities Act
Electro Cardiogram
Environmental Conservation Law
Electronic Data Interchange
External Degree Program
Executive Information System
Electronic Mail
Electric Multiple Unit
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
Eastern Newspapers Society
End of File
Educational and Research Network
Extra Sensory Perception
Embryo Transfer Technology
Electro Video Recording
Food and Agriculture Organisation
Frequently Asked Question
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Food Corporation of India
International Football Federation
First Information Report
Fully Integrated Robostised Engine
Finance Minister
Frequency Modulation
Freedom of Information Law
Fellow of the Royal Society
Full Time Equivalent
Full Time Equivalent Population
File Transfer Protocol
Gas Authority of India Ltd.
Governmental Accountability Office
Governmental Accounting Standards
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
General Agreement on Trade and Services
Great Britain
Giga Byte
Gross Domestic Product
General Equivalency Diploma
Global Environment Fund
Garbage In Garbage Out
Geographical Information System
Government Order
General Officer Commanding
Good Office Committee
Government of India
Global Positioning System
Graduate Record Examination
Geological Survey of India
Geostationary Launch Vehicle

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GSM
GSP
GU
GUI
GUI
HAL
HC
HCM
HDD
HF
HFD
HIV
HMI
HP
HSD
HTML
HTML
HTR
HTTP
HTTP
HV
HVNET
IA
IAAI
IAF
IAS
IASLIC
IBM
IBM
ICDL
ICJ
ICMR
ICSSR
ICT
ICU
IDA
IDBI
IDSR
IEEE
IELTS
IFC
IFLA
IGNOU
IGRA
IHS
IIM
IISc
IISCO
IIT
ILA
ILL

Global System for Mobile Communications

Generalised Systems Preference
Gauhati University
Graphical User Interface
Graphical User Interface
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
High Court
Highway Capacity Manual
Hard Disc Drive
High Frequency
High Frequency Doppler
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Himalayan Mountaineering Institute
Himachal Pradesh
High Speed Diesel
Hyper Text Mark-up Language
Hyper Text Markup Language
High Temperature Reactor
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
High Voltage
High Speed VSAT Network
Indian Airlines
Indian Audit and Accounts Services
Indian Air Force
Indian Administrative Service
Indian Association of Special Library and Information Centres
International Business Machines
International Business Machine
International Conference on Digital Libraries
International Court of Justices
International Council for Medical Research
Indian Council for Social Science Research
Information and Communication Technology
Intensive Care Unit
International Development Agency
Industrial Development Bank of India
Intelligent Dedicated SONET Ring
Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers
International English Language Testing System
Industrial Finance Corporation
International Federation for Library Association
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
Indian Health Service
Indian Institute of Management
Indian Institute of Science
Indian Iron and Steel Company
Indian Institute of Technology
Indian Library Association
Inter Library Loan

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IMD
IMS
INA
INDEST
INFLIBNET
INFONET
INS
INSAT
INSDOC
INTUC
IOC
IP
IPC
IPCL
IPKF
IQAC
IRA
IRC
IRRI
IRS
IRS
ISBD
ISBN
ISI
ISO
ISRO
ISSN
IT
ITES
ITI
ITI
ITU
IUCAA
IYC
JANET
JCO
JP
JPEG
JPP
JSC
KB
KG
KM
KM
KMPH
KRC
KWIC
LAN
LASER
LASER
LCA

India Meteorological Department

Indian Medical Service
Indian National Army
Indian National Digital Library in Science and Technology
Information and Library Network
Information Network
Indian Newspaper Society
Indian National Satellite
Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre (presently known as NISCAIR)
Indian National Trade Union Congress
Indian Oil Corporation
Internet Protocol
Indian Penal Code
Indian Petro Chemicals Corporation LTD.
Indian Peace Keeping Force
Internal Quality Assurance Cell
Indian Reorganization Act
International Red Cross
International Rice Research Institute
Indian Remote Sensing Satellite
Indian Revenue Service
International Standard Bibliographic Description
International Standard Book Number
Indian Statistical Institute
International Standards Organisation
Indian Space Research Organisation
International Standard Serial Number
Information Technology
Information Technology enabled services
Indian Telephone Industries
Industrial Training Institute
International Telecommunication Union
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics
Indian Youth Congress
Joint Academic Network
Junior Commissioner Officer
Justices of Peace
Joint Photographic Expert Group
Janata Parliamentary Party
Joint Stock Company
Kilo Byte
Kilogram
Kilometre
Knowledge Management
Kilometre Per Hour
Konkan Railway Corporation
Keyword In Context
Local Area Network
Light Amplication by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
London and South Eastern Library Region
Light Combat Aircraft

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LCD
LCM
LIC
LIS
LOA
LOS
LRSI
LS
LSG
LSI
LTTE
LUP
MAN
MARC
MAT
MB
MBA
MBBS
MCI
MD
MDMK
MEA
MFN
MG
MGD
MHRD
MI
MIDI
MIPS
MIPS
MKS
MLA
MLISc
MM
MNC
MO
MODEM
MODEM
MP
MPEG
MPH
MS
MSc
MS-DOS
MYLIBNET
NAAC
NAAI
NAAQS
NACLIN
NAEYC
NAGPRA

Liquid Crystal Display

Lowest Common Multiple
Life Insurance Corporation
Land Information System
Level of Assessment
Level of Service
Low-temperature Reusable Surface Insulation
Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament)
Local Self Government
Large Scale Integration
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Land Use Permit
Metropolitan Area Network
Machine Readable Catalogue
Medication Administration Training
Mega Byte
Master of Business Administration
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
Medical Council of India
Doctor of Medicine
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Ministry of External Affairs
Most Favoured Nation
Meter Guage (trains)
Million Gallons per Day
Ministry of Human Resource Development
Military Intelligence
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Million Instructions per Second
Million Instructions Per Second
Metre Kilogram Second
Member of Legislative Assembly
Master of Library & Information Science
Multi Media
Multi National Corporation
Money Order
Modulator demodulator
Modulator and Demodulator
Madhya Pradesh
Motion Picture Experts Group
Miles Per Hour
Master of Surgery
Master of Science
Micro Soft Disc Operating System
Mysore Library Network
National Accreditation and Assessment Council
National Airports Authority of India
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
National Convention on Library and Networking
National Association for the Education of Young Children
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

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NASA
NASSCOM
NCO
NDA
NDA
NEC
NEPA
NET
NGO
NHPA
NIC
NIC
NIGC
NISCAIR
NISSAT
NIT
NLP
NMLs
NMPC
NO2
NORC
NOS
NPDES
NPL
NRCS
NRI
NSC
NSC
NSPS
NSUI
NTPC
NWI
OBC
OCLC
OCR
OCR
ODA
ODI
OGL
OIC
ONGC
OPAC
OS
OSI
PAC
PAN
PC
PC
PC
PCA
PF

National Aeronautics and Space Ad-ministration

National Association of Software and Service Companies
Non Commissioned Officer
National Democratic Alliance
National Defence Academy
North East Council
National Environmental Policy Act
National Educational Test
Non Government Organisation
National Historic Preservation Act
National Informatics Centre
National Informatics Centre
National Indian Gaming Commission
National Institute of Scientific, Cultural and Information Research
National Information System for Science and Technology
National Institute of Technology
Natural Language Processing
Noise Monitoring Locations
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation
Nitrogen dioxide
National Opinion Research Center
Network Operating System
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
National Physical Laboratory
National Resource Conservation Service
Non Residential Indian
National Savings Certificate
National Security Council
New Source Performance Standards
National Students Union of India
National Thermal Power Corporation
National Wetlands Inventory
Other Backward Classes
Online Computer Library Centre
Optical Character Recognition
Optical Character Recognition
Overseas Development Association
Open Data Link Interface
Open General Licence
Organisation of Islamic Conference
Oil and Natural Gas Commission
Online Public Access Catalogue
Operating System
Open System Interconnection
Political Accounts Committee
Permanent Account Number
Personal Computer
Post Card
Personal Computer
Professional Chess Association
Provident Fund

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PG
PHC
PIB
PIN
PLANNER
PMG
PRS
PSC
PSLV
PSU
PTA
PTI
PVC
PWD
QMS
R&D
R&D
RADAR
RAM
RAW
RBI
RDBMS
RDX
RECON
RFID
RFP
RIL
RLIN
RNA
ROM
RPM
RRRLF
RS
RSS
RTO
S&T
SAARC
SAC
SAIL
SAT
SC
SC/ST
SCSI
SDI
SEBI
SENSEX
SGML
SIM
SLV
SMS
SMTP

Post Graduate
Primary Health Centre
Public Information Bureau
Postal Index Number
Promotion for Library Automation and Networking in North Eastern Region
Post Master General
Pattern Recognition System
Public Service Commission
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
Public Sector Unit
Parent Teacher Association
Press Trust of India
Poly Vinyl Chloride
Public Works Department
Quick Mail Service
Research and Development
Research and Development
Radio Detecting and Ranging
Random Access Memory
Research and Analysis Wing
Reserve Bank of India
Relational Database Management System
Research and Development Explosive
Retrospective Conversion
Radio Frequency Identification
Request for Proposal
Regional Institute of Labour
Research Libraries and Information Network
Ribonucleic acid
Read Only Memory
Revolution Per Minute
Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation
Rajya Sabha
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Regional Transport Officer
Science and Technology
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
Space Application Centre
Steel Authority of India Limited
Scholastic Aptitude Test
Supreme Court
Scheduled Castes / Scheduled Tribes
Small Computer Systems Interface
Selective Dissemination of Information
Securities Exchange Board of India
Sensitivity Index of Share Price
Standard Generalised Markup Language
Subscriber Information Module
Satellite Launch Vehicle
Short Message Service
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

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SOUL
SP
SSI
ST
STAR
STD
STP
STP
SVP
SWAP
SWMP
TA
TA
TC
TCP
TCP/IP
TDA
TFT
TIFR
TISCO
TMO
TN
TNCC
TOEFL
TPA
TPO
TSE
TTC
TTE
TTF
TU
TV
UAE
UAI
UAP
UDDI
UDP
UGC
UGC
UHF
UK
ULFA
UML
UN
UNESCO
UNGA
UNI
UNISIST
UNIVAC
UP
UPI

Software for University Libraries

Samajwadi Party; Samata Party
Small Scale Industry
Scheduled Tribes
Satellite Television Asian Region Ltd.
Subscriber Trunk Dialling
Software Technology Park
Shielded Twisted Pair
Saturated Vapour Pressure
Source Water Assessment Program
Solid Waste Management Plan
Territorial Army
Travelling Allowance
Transfer Certificate
Transmission Control Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
Trade Development Authority
Thin-Film Transistor
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Tata Iron & Steel Company
Telegraphic Money Order
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu Congress Committee
Test of English as a Foreign Language
Tribal Priority Allocation
Tribal Preservation Officer
Test of Spoken English
Teacher Training Course
Travelling Ticket Examiner
Tourism Task Force
Tezpur University
Television
United Arab Emirates
Universal Access to Information
Universal Availability of Publications
Universal Description Discovery And Integration
User Datagram Protocol
University Grants Commission
University Grants Commission
Ultra High Frequency
United Kingdom
United Liberation Front of Asom
Unified Modelling Language
United Nations
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation
United Nations General Assembly
United News of India
United Nations Information System in Science and Technology
Universal Automatic Computer
Uttar Pradesh
United Press International

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UPS
UPSC
URL
URL
USA
USIS
UTP
VAT
VATIS
VC
VG
VGA
VHF
VHP
VHRR
VIP
VIRUS
VLSI
VOIP
VPI
VR
Vs
VSAT
VSNL
VSSC
VVF
WAIS
WAN
WARDEC
WAY
WB
WDM
WebOPAC
WFC
WFP
WHO
WI-FI
WINISIS
WLN
WMO
WPA
WPI
WR
WTO
WWW
XHTML
XML
XPD
XSLT
YMCA
YMIA

Uninterrupted Power Supply

Union Public Service Commission
Uniform Resource Locator
Uniform Resource Locator
United States of America
United States Information Service
Unshielded Twisted Pair
Value Added Tax
Value Added Technology Information Services
Vice Chancellor
Vicar General
Video Graphics Array
Very High Frequency
Vishwa Hindu Parishad
Very High Resolution Radiometer
Very Important Person
Vital Information Resources Under Siege
Very Large Scale Integration
Voice Over Internet Protocol
Virtual Path Identifier
Virtual Reality
Versus
Very Small Apertures Terminal
Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
Village Volunteer Force
Wide Area Information Service
Wide Area Network
Wargaming Development Centre
World Assembly of Youth
West Bengal
World Debt Market
Web Online Public Access Catalogue
World Food Council
World Food Programming
World Health Organisation
Wireless Fidelity
Windows ISIS
Western Library Network
World Meteorological Organisation
Wi-Fi Protected Access
Words Per Minute
Western Railway
World Trade Organisation
World Wide Web
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
Extensible Mark-up Language
XRay Photoelectron Diffraction
Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformation
Young Mens Christian Association
Young Mens Indian Association

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Zygote Intra Fallopian Transfer
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