Abbreviations

Abbreviations
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AOC
Assam oil company
AOD
Assam Oil Division
ATF
Aviation Turbine Fuel
ARWSP
Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme
BCCL
Bharat Coking Coal Limited (Coal India Ltd. Subsidiary) - Public - Non Captive
BCM
Billion Cubic Meters
BECML
Bengal Emta Coal Mines Limited - Private - Captive
BEST
BrihanMumbai Electric Supply and Transport
BLA
BLA Industries Limited - Private - Captive
BPCL
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. , Public Sector Undertaking
BPCL
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. , Public Sector Undertakings
BRPL
Bongaigaon Refinery and Petro-Chemicals Ltd. , Public Sector Undertakings
CAD
Command Area Development
CCL
Central Coalfields Limited (Coal India Ltd. Subsidiary) - Public - Non Captive
CDMA
Code-Division Multiple Access, refers to any of several protocols used in socalled second-generation (2G) and third-generation (3G) wireless
communications. As the term implies, CDMA is a form of multiplexing, which
allows numerous signals to occupy a single transmission channel, optimizing
the use of available bandwidth. The technology is used in ultra-high-frequency
(UHF) cellular telephone systems
CHLD
Cargo Handling Labour Department
CHLP
Cargo Handling Labour Pool
ChPT
Chennai Port Trust
CIL
Coal India Limited
Ckt. Km.
circuit kilometer
CLW
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works
CLW
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works
CML
Castron Mining Limited - Private - Captive
CoPT
Cochin Port Trust
CPCL
Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited(Public Sector Undertaking)
CPCL
Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited, Public Sector Undertakings
CPEs
Centrally Planned Economies
CPRI
The Central Power Research Institute, Autonomous body
DCOP
Durgapur Coke Oven Plant
DEL
Direct Exchange Lines
DEMU
Diesel Electric Multiple Unit
DGH
Directorate General of Hydrocarbons
DHMU
Diesel Hydraulic Multiple Unit
DHQ
District Head Quarter
DLMW
Diesel Loco Modernisation Works
DLMW
Diesel locomotive works
DLW
Diesel Locomotive Works
DMU
Diesel Multiple Unit
DPL
Durgapur Projects Limited
DVC
Damodar Valley Corporation - Public - Captive
DVC
Damodar Valley Corporation
DWT
Deadweight tonnage (often abbreviated as DWT for deadweight tonnes) is the
displacement at any loaded condition minus the lightship weight. It includes
the crew, passengers, cargo, fuel, water, and stores. Like Displacement, it is
often expressed in long tons or in metric tons. This presents the actual carrying
capacity of a ship. Lightship or Lightweight measures the actual weight of the
ship with no fuel, passengers, cargo, water, etc. on board.
ECL
Eastern Coalfields Limited (Coal India Ltd. Subsidiary) -Public - Non Captive
EMEs
Emerging Market Economies (includes countries of South & Central America,
Africa, Middle-east, Non-OECD Asia & Non-OECD Europe)
EMU
Electric Multiple Units
EPL
Ennore Port Limited
ER
Eastern Region
ETKM
FO
Equated Track Kilometers, which includes factors for the traffic density and
type of track formation, etc., over the basic track length.
Furnace Oil
GAIL
Gas Authority of India Ltd. , Public Sector Undertakings
GHz
Gigahertz
GRT
Gross Registered Tonnage- It applies to the vessel and not to cargo. It is the
weight of the volume occupied by the closed in space of a ship taking 100 cubic
feet of such closed-in-spaces as equivalent to one vessel ton. It thus refers to
the cubic capacity of the vessels.
GSM
Global System for Mobile communications
GWh
Gigawatthours
Ha.
Hectare
HDC
Haldia Dock Complex
HIL
Hindalco Industries Limited - Private - Captive
HPCL
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.( a Public Sector Undertaking)
HSDO
High Speed Diesel Oil
IBP
IBP Co. Ltd. , Public Sector Undertakings
ICF
Integral Coach Factory
ICML
Integrated Coal Mining Limited - Private - Captive
IISCO
Indian Iron & Steel Company
IISCO
Indian Iron & Steel Company Limited - Public - Captive
IOC
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. ( a Public Sector Undertakings)
IOC
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. , Public Sector Undertakings
IPP
Independent Power Producer
IREDA
Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited
ISD
International Subscriber Dialing
IWT
Inland Water Transport
JKML
Jammu & Kashmir Minerals Limited - Public - Non Captive
JNPT
Jawahar lal nehru port trust
JSMDCL
JSPL
Jharkhand State Mineral Development Corporation Limited - Public - Non
Captive
Jindal Steel & Power Limited - Private - Captive
JVC
Joint Venture Companies
KDS
Kolkata Dock System
KPT
Kolkata port trust
KRL
Kochi Refineries Ltd, a BPCL refinery
KV
Kilovolt
KVA
Kilo Volt Ampere
KW
Kilowatt
KWH
Kilowatthour
LDO
Light Diesel Oil
LF
Load factor
LPG
Liquefied Petroleum Gas
LPG
Liquefied petroleum gas
LSHS
Low Sulphur Heavy Stock
MbPT
Mumbai port trust
MCL
Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (Coal India Ltd. Subsidiary) - Public - Non Captive
MEG
MEMU
Mainline Electric Multiple Units
MES
Military Engineer Services
MGD
Million Gallons per Day
MIL
Monnet Ispat Lilited - Private - Captive
MMT
Million Metric Tonnes
MoPT
Mormugao port trust
MRPL
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited, a subsidiary of ONGC
MS/MOGAS
Motor Spirit/Motor Gasoline
MTO
Mineral Turpentine Oil
MTP
Mass Transit Program
MTY
Million Tonnes per year
MTY
million tonnes per year
MU
million units
MW
Megawatt
MW
Megawatt
NACIL
National Aviation Company of India Ltd.
NCL
Northern Coalfields Limited (Coal India Ltd. Subsidiary) – Public – Non Captive
NCW
Non-communist World
NDLB
Nataional Dock Labour Board
NEC
North Eastern Coalfields is a unit of Coal India (CIL
NEC
North Eastern Coalfields (Coal India Ltd. Subsidiary) - Public - Non Captive
NEEPCO
North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd., a Public Sector Undertaking
NER
North Eastern Region
NHPC
National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Ltd., a Public Sector Undertaking
NLC
Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited - Public - Non Captive
NMPT
New Mangalore Port Trust
NPTI
National Power Training Institute, Autonomous body
NR
North Region
NRL
Numaligarh Refinery Limited
NRL
Numaligarh Refinery Limited
NRT
Net Registered Tonnage- It refers to the earning space capacity of a ship,
available for the storage of cargo and accomodation of passengers. It is
obtained by deducting from GRT the cubic capacity space( taking 100 cu. feet =
1 ton) occupied by stores, fuel, machinery crew etc. and which does not
represent the earning capacity of the ship.
NSD
National Subscriber Dialing
NTPC
National Thermal Power Corporation Limited, a Public Sector Undertaking
OECD
Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development
OFC
Optic Fibre Cable
OIL
Oil India Limited ( a Public Sector Undertakings)
OIL
Oil India Ltd., Public Sector Undertakings
ONGC
Oil and Natural Gas Commission ( a Public Sector Undertaking)
ONGC
Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., Public Sector Undertakings
ONGC
Oil and Natural Gas Commission, Public Sector Undertakings
OPEC
Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
PCO
Public call office
PET-COKE
Petroleum Coke
PLF
Plant Load Factor
PMGSY
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
POL
Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants
POWERGRID
Power Grid Corporation of India, a Public Sector Undertaking
PPT
Paradip Port Trust
PSU
Public Sector Unit
Pvt./JVC
Private / Joint Venture Companies
PWD
Public Works Division
RCF
Rail Coach Factory
RE
Revised estimate
RGPPL
Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Limited
RPF
Railway Protection Force
RPL
Reliance Petroleum Ltd
RPL
Reliance Petroleum Limited
SAIL
Steel Authority of India Limited ( a Public Sector Undertaking)
SBPS
Special Boiling Point Spirit
SCCL
Singareni Collieries Company Limited - Public - Non Captive
SDHQ
Sub- District Head Quarter
SECL
South Eastern Coalfields Limited
SECL
SJVNL
South Eastern Coalfields Limited (Coal India Ltd. Subsidiary) - Public - Non
Captive
Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited, Joint Venture Corporation
SKO
Superior Kerosene Oil
SR
Southern Region
ST-CLI
S&T
(The Mauritius-based )Spectrum Technologies and CLI Operations Company
Ltd.
Science and Technology
SV
Supply Vessels
TEU
Twenty Feet Equivalent Units
THDC
Tehri Hydro Development Corporation, Joint Venture Corporation
TISCO
Tata Iron and Steel Company (Private Sector Company)
TPT
Tuticorin Port Trust
VPT
Visakhapatnam Port Trust
VSAT
Very Small Aperture Terminal, is a two-way satellite ground station with a dish
antenna that is smaller than 3 meters.
WCL
Western Coalfields Limited
WR
Western Region