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

There are many more which will be updated here soon. 

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