| ACS | Average Cost of Supply |
| ARR | Average Revenue Realised |
| ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| ATB | Auction Treasury Bill |
| BE | Budget Estimate |
| BPS | Basis Points |
| BRICS | Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa |
| CAG | Comptroller and Auditor General |
| CBR | Crude Birth Rate |
| C-D Ratio | Credit Deposit Ratio |
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CDR | Crude Death Rate |
| CFR | Case Fatality Rate |
| CGA | Controller General of Accounts |
| CLRAR | Contract Labour Regulation and Abolition Rules |
| CMIE | Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy |
| CMNND | Communicable-Maternal-Neonatal- Nutritional Diseases |
| CORUS | COVID Relief and Upliftment Scheme |
| COVID-19 | Coronavirus Disease of 2019 |
| CRISIL | Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited |
| CSF | Consolidated Sinking Fund |
| CSS | Centrally Sponsored Scheme |
| DA | Dearness Allowance |
| DALYs | Disability Adjusted Life Years |
| DBT | Direct Benefit Transfer |
| DGCI&S | Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics |
| DGHS | Directorate General of Health Services |
| DIPP | Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion |
| DISCOM | Distribution Company |
| EC | Emigration Clearance |
| ECS | Electronic Clearing System |
| EME | Emerging Market Economy |
| e-NAM | National Agriculture Market |
| ESIC | Employees’ State Insurance Corporation |
| EU | European Union |
| FA | Factories Act |
| FC-XIV | Fourteenth Finance Commission |
| FC-XV | Fifteenth Finance Commission |
| FDI | Foreign Direct Investment |
| FICCI | Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry |
| FRBM | Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management |
| FRL | Fiscal Rule Legislation |
| G20 | Group of Twenty |
| G2P | Government-to-Person |
| GBD | Global Burden of Disease |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GFC | Global Financial Crisis |
| GFD | Gross Fiscal Deficit |
| GMM | Generalized Method of Moments |
| GoI | Government of India |
| GoTN | Government of Tamil Nadu |
| GRF | Guarantee Redemption Fund |
| GRIDCO | Grid Corporation of Odisha |
| GSDP | Gross State Domestic Product |
| G-Sec | Government Security |
| GST | Goods and Services Tax |
| GVA | Gross Value Added |
| GVC | Global Value Chain |
| HUF | Hindu Undivided Family |
| HWC | Health and Welfare Centre |
| ICMR | Indian Council of Medical Research |
| ICU | Intensive Care Unit |
| IDA | Industrial Disputes Act |
| IFSC | Indian Financial System Code |
| IGST | Integrated Goods and Service Tax |
| IHME | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation |
| ILO | International Labor Organisation |
| IMD | International Institute for Management Development |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| IMPS | Immediate Payment Service |
| ITB | Intermediate Treasury Bill |
| L&A | Loans and Advances |
| LHS | Left Hand Side |
| LIC | Life Insurance Corporation of India |
| LSG | Local Self Government |
| LTPT | Low Tension Power Tariff |
| Mbps | Megabits Per Second |
| MGNREGA | Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act |
| MIS | Management Information System |
| MoH&FW | Ministry of Health and Family Welfare |
| MOSPI | Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation |
| MoU | Memorandum of Understanding |
| MPIE | Madhya Pradesh Industrial Employment |
| MPIRA | Madhya Pradesh Industrial Relations Act |
| MPSKNA | Madhya Pradesh Shram Kalyan Nidhi Adhiniyam |
| MSME | Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise |
| MT | Metric Ton |
| NABARD | National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development |
| NACH | National Automated Clearing House |
| NBFC | Non-Banking Financial Company |
| NCD | Non-Communicable Diseases |
| NCDC | National Co-operative Development Corporation |
| NCT | National Capital Territory |
| NEEDS | New Entrepreneurship-cum-Enterprise Development Scheme |
| NEFT | National Electronic Fund Transfer |
| NETC | National Electronic Toll Collection |
| NGO | Non-Governmental Organisation |
| NHM | National Health Mission |
| NITI | National Institution for Transforming India |
| NPA | Non-Performing Asset |
| NPCI | National Payments Corporation of India |
| NRHM | National Rural Health Mission |
| NSDP | Net State Domestic Product |
| NSO | National Statistical Office |
| NSS | National Sample Survey |
| NSSF | National Small Savings Fund |
| NSSO | National Sample Survey Office |
| NUHM | National Urban Health Mission |
| OBC | Other Backward Class |
| OD | Overdraft |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| OLS | Ordinary Least Squares |
| OSH | Occupational Safety & Health |
| OTR | Own Tax Revenue |
| PA | Provisional Estimates |
| PAT | Profit After Tax |
| PC | Principal Component |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| PD | Primary Deficit |
| PE | Project Exporters |
| PFC | Power Finance Corporation |
| PFM | Public Financial Management |
| PHFI | Public Health Foundation of India |
| PLFS | Periodic Labor Force Survey |
| PM-JAY | Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana |
| PoS | Point of Sale |
| PPA | Power Purchase Agreements |
| PPE | Personal Protective Equipment |
| PPI | Pre-paid Payment Instrument |
| PPP | Public Private Partnership |
| PSU | Public Sector Undertaking |
| Q-Cert | Quality Certification |
| RA | Recruiting Agent |
| RBI | Reserve Bank of India |
| RD | Revenue Deficit |
| RE | Revised Estimate |
| RGI | Registrar General of India |
| RHS | Right Hand Side |
| RMNCH+A | Reproductive-Maternal-Neonatal-Child and Adolescent Health |
| ROA | Return on Assets |
| ROE | Return on Equity |
| RSBY | Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna |
| RTGS | Real Time Gross Settlement |
| SAARC | South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation |
| SARTTAC | South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center |
| SBI | State Bank of India |
| SC | Scheduled Caste |
| SDF | Special Drawing Facility |
| SDG | Sustainable Development Goal |
| SDL | State Development Loan |
| SDRMF | State Disaster Response & Mitigation Fund |
| SGST | State Goods and Services Tax |
| SHA | System of Health Accounts |
| SLR | Statutory Liquidity Ratio |
| SPSE | State Public Sector Enterprise |
| ST | Scheduled Tribe |
| STP | Straight Through Processing |
| TIIC | Tamil Nadu Industrial Investment Corporation |
| UAE | United Arab Emirates |
| UCLG | United Cities and Local Governments |
| UDAY | Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana |
| UHC | Universal Health Coverage |
| UIDAI | Unique Identification Authority of India |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| ULB | Urban Local Body |
| UN | United Nations |
| UPI | Unified Payments Interface |
| USA | United States of America |
| USSD | Unstructured Supplementary Service Data |
| UT | Union Territory |
| UYEGP | Unemployed Youth Employment Generation Programme |
| VAT | Value Added Tax |
| VBM | Vande Bharat Mission |
| WAS | Weighted Average Spread |
| WAY | Weighted Average Yield |
| WHO | World Health Organisation |
| WMA | Ways and Means Advance |
| WPI | Wholesale Price Index |
| YLD | Years Lived with Disability |
| YLL | Years of Life Lost |
| Y-o-Y | Year-on-Year |