| B |
atmospheric pressure correction (altitude); bearing, bearing angle. |
| B2B |
Business to Business |
| B2C |
Business to Consumer |
| BAIF |
Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation |
| BARC |
Bhabha Atomic Research Centere |
| BAT |
best available technology |
| BC |
Benefit Cost |
| BCCI |
Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry |
| BCG |
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (anti-TB vaccine) |
| BCM |
Billion Cubic Metres |
| Bdy Mon |
boundary monument. |
| BEAG |
The Bombay Environment Action Group |
| BEE |
Bureau of Energy Efficiency |
| BEL |
Bharat Electronics Limited |
| BENELUX |
Belgium, Nether-lands and Luxembourg |
| BEST |
BrihanMumbai Electric Supply and Transportation |
| BFO |
beat frequency oscillator. |
| BHEL |
Bharat Heavy Electric-cals Ltd. |
| bhp |
break horsepower |
| BIA |
business impact assessment |
| BIFR |
Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction |
| BIH |
Bureau Internationale de l’Heure. |
| BIMSTEC |
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand Economic Cooperation |
| BIPM |
International Bureau of Weights and Measures. |
| BIS |
Bank of International Settlement; Bureau of Indian Standards |
| bk |
broken. |
| bkw |
breakwater. |
| bl |
blue. |
| BM |
bench mark. |
| BMC |
BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation |
| BMRDA |
BrihanMumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority |
| BMW |
Bio Medical Waste |
| Bn |
beacon. |
| -bn- |
billion |
| BOD |
Biological Oxygen Demand |
| BOD5 |
idem at 5 days |
| BOT |
Build-operate-transfer |
| BPAT |
Building Performance Assessment Team |
| BPE |
Bureau of Public Enterprises |
| Bpgc |
bearing per gyrocompass. |
| BPO |
Business Process Outsourcing |
| BPS |
Bytes per second; Building Performance Study |
| bq |
bequerel |
| br |
breakers. |
| Brg. |
bearing (as distinguished from bearing angle). |
| BRICSAM |
Brazil, Russia, India, China, S. Africa and Maxico |
| BRO |
Border Roads Organisation |
| BRPSE |
Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises |
| BSE |
Bombay Stock Exchange |
| BSES |
Bombay Suburban Electric Supply |
| BSNL |
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited |
| bu |
blue. |
