Government Job Abbreviations and Acronyms

Government Job  Abbreviations & Acronyms 

Government Job  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 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 filing process and its requirements.

Abbreviations in Government Jobs advertisements

Most of  the times, 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 try to get full forms from various sources.

Some of the abbreviations and acronyms having multiple full forms and hence, 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 Abbreviations and Acronyms

Here is the list of common government job related 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
24. OH - Orthopaedically Handicapped
25. HH - Hearing Handicapped
26. OA - One Arm
27. CL - One Leg
28. Ex.SM - Ex Serviceman
29. DD - Demand Draft
30. IDA - Industrial Dearness Allowance
31. CDA - Central Dearness Allowance
32. DA - Dearness Allowance
33. LTC - Leave Travel Concession
34. LTA - Leave Travel Allowance
35. HRA - House Rent Allowance
36. CCA - City Compensatory Allowance
37. PF - Provident Fund
38. CPF - Contributory Provident Fund
39. GPF - Government Provident Fund
40. PSU - Public Sector Undertaking
41. OM - Office Memorandum
42. GD - General Duty
43. NCC - National Cadet Core
44. PAN - Permanent Account Number
45. RR - Recruitment Rules
46. DOPT - Department of Personnel and Training (GoI)
47. GoI - Government of India
48. UT - Union Territory
49. PCS - Provincial Civil Service 
50. IAS - Indian Administrative Service.
51. IFS Indian Foreign Service.
52. IPS - Indian Police Service.
53. IPTAFS - Indian P & T Accounts & Finance Service 
54. IAAS - Indian Audit and Accounts Service 
55. IRS - Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) 
56. IDAS - Indian Defence Accounts Service 
57. IRS - Indian Revenue Service (I.T.) 
58. IOFS - Indian Ordnance Factories Service 
59. ICAS - Indian Civil Accounts Service 
60. IRTS - Indian Railway Traffic Service 
61. IRAS - Indian Railway Accounts Service 
62. IRPS - Indian Railway Personnel Service 
63. RPF -  Railway Protection Force 
64. IDES - Indian Defence Estates Service 
65. IIS - Indian Information Service 
66. ITS - Indian Trade Service 
67. ICLS - Indian Corporate Law Service 
68. IES - Indian Economic Service
69. ISS - Indian Statistical Service
70. CDS - Combined Defence Service
71. AFHCS - Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service 
72. DANICS - Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Civil Service 
73. DANIPS - Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Police Service, Group 'B'
74. DJ - District Judge
75. AFP - Armed Forces Personnel
76. CBRT - Computer Based Recruitment Test
77. SO - Section Officer
78. AC - Assistant commandant
79. CAPF - Central Armed Police Forces
80. RTI - Right To Information
81. GO - Government Order
82. IT - Information Technology
83. SBI - State Bank of India

There are many more which will be update here soon.