Government Job Abbreviations Full Form and Acronyms

Government Job Full form Abbreviations & Acronyms 

Government Job  Full form Abbreviations & Acronyms

Almost all eligible job seekers in India, at least once try to grab a government job according to their liking and qualifications. All fill the recruitment application form whether offline or online to apply for a particular government job. Filling up of government application form is a long and important task which should be done very carefully.

Job seekers must try to read the complete detailed latest government job advertisement and try to understand all the nitty-gritty of the application form filling process and its requirements.

Abbreviations in Government Jobs advertisements

Most of the time, detailed government job advertisements use some common abbreviations and acronyms which are very common in nature and obvious. But many job seekers while applying first time get confused about them to try to get full forms from various sources.

Some of the abbreviations and acronyms having multiple full forms and hence, a job seeker may get confused.  Government recruitment agencies in India use a lot of government acronyms to describe the various information.

We are trying to help such job seekers here and below is the list of very common abbreviations and acronyms which are used while understanding the detailed government job document and also while applying for a particular government job.  This guide lists acronyms and abbreviations commonly used by the Indian government recruitment process only. Each acronym is defined herewith

List of Government Job Full forms, Abbreviations and Acronyms

Here is the list of common government jobs related full forms abbreviations and acronyms, which you may use in regular application form filing etc. -

1. UPSC - Union Public Service Commission
2. PSC - Public Service Commission
3. SSC - Staff Selection Commission / Short Service Commission
4. PSC - Permanent Service Commission
5. PC - Permanent Commission
6. IBPS - Institute of Banking Personnel Selection
7. GATE - Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
8. CLAT - Common Law Admission Test
9. CSAT - Civil Services Aptitude Test
10. CSE - Civil Services Examination
11. CAT - Common Admission Test
12. UGC NET - University Grant Commission - National Eligibility Test
13. CSIR NET - Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - National Eligibility Test
14. NDA - National Defence Academy
15. CCE - Common Entrance Examination
16. ORA - Online Recruitment Application
17. UR - Unreserved
18. OBC - Other Backward Class  
19. EWS - Economically Weaker Section
20. BC - Backward Class
21. SC - Schedule Class
22. ST - Schedule Tribe
23. PWD - Persons With Disabilities
1. VI- Visual Impairment including Blindness (B)
2. LV - Low Vision
3. LD- Locomotor Disability including Cerebral Palsy (CP)
4. LC - Leprosy Cured (LC)
5. Dw- Dwarfism (Dw)
6. AAV - Acid Attack Victims
7. MDy - Muscular Dystrophy (MDy)
8. HI- Hearing Impairment including Deaf (D)
9. HH - Hard of Hearing (HH)
10. OBD - Other Benchmark Disabilities including 
11. ASD -Autism Spectrum Disorder - Mild & Moderate
12. ID - Intellectual Disability (ID)
13. SLD - Specific Learning Disability
14. MI - Mental Illness
15. MD - Multiple Disabilities (MD)
16. OH - Orthopedically Handicapped
17. OA - One Arm
18. CL - One Leg
24. Ex.SM - Ex Serviceman
25. DD - Demand Draft
26. IDA - Industrial Dearness Allowance
27. CDA - Central Dearness Allowance
28. DA - Dearness Allowance
29. LTC - Leave Travel Concession
30. LTA - Leave Travel Allowance
31. HRA - House Rent Allowance
32. CCA - City Compensatory Allowance
33. PF - Provident Fund
34. CPF - Contributory Provident Fund
35. GPF - Government Provident Fund
36. PSU - Public Sector Undertaking
37. OM - Office Memorandum
38. GD - General Duty
39. NCC - National Cadet Core
40. PAN - Permanent Account Number
41. RR - Recruitment Rules
42. DOPT - Department of Personnel and Training (GoI)
43. GoI - Government of India
44. UT - Union Territory
45. PCS - Provincial Civil Service 
46. IAS - Indian Administrative Service.
47. IFS Indian Foreign Service.
48. IPS - Indian Police Service.
49. IPTAFS - Indian P & T Accounts & Finance Service 
50. IAAS - Indian Audit and Accounts Service 
51. IRS - Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) 
52. IDAS - Indian Defence Accounts Service 
53. IRS - Indian Revenue Service (I.T.) 
54. IOFS - Indian Ordnance Factories Service 
55. ICAS - Indian Civil Accounts Service 
56. IRTS - Indian Railway Traffic Service 
57. IRAS - Indian Railway Accounts Service 
58. IRPS - Indian Railway Personnel Service 
59. RPF -  Railway Protection Force 
60. IDES - Indian Defence Estates Service 
61. IIS - Indian Information Service 
62. ITS - Indian Trade Service 
63. ICLS - Indian Corporate Law Service 
64. IES - Indian Economic Service
65. ISS - Indian Statistical Service
66. CDS - Combined Defence Service
67. AFHCS - Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service 
68. DANICS - Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Civil Service 
69. DANIPS - Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Police Service, Group 'B'
70. DJ - District Judge
71. AFP - Armed Forces Personnel
72. CBRT - Computer Based Recruitment Test
73. SO - Section Officer
74. AC - Assistant commandant
75. CAPF - Central Armed Police Forces
76. RTI - Right To Information
77. GO - Government Order
78. IT - Information Technology
79. SBI - State Bank of India

There are many more which will be updated here soon.