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Date : Oct 22, 2010
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on Oct. 15, 2010

Variation over

Week

End-March 2010

End-December 2009

Year

` Crore

US$ Mn.

`  Crore

US$ Mn.

`  Crore

US$ Mn.

`  Crore

US$ Mn.

`  Crore

US$ Mn.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

Total Reserves

13,07,022

296,433

–6,813

641

47,357

17,376

–16,213

12,963

–12,738

11,597

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

11,83,008

268,682

–6,821

582*

33,358

13,997

–24,057

10,099

–56,556

784

(b) Gold $

92,157

20,516

10,969

2,530

6,770

2,224

42,601

10,200

(c) SDRs @

22,944

5,211

6

43

348

205

–1,184

42

–1,349

–39

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

8,913

2,024

2

16

2,682

644

2,258

598

2,566

652

+ Excludes ` 1,101 crore /US$ 250 million invested in foreign currency denominated bonds issued by IIFC (UK).
* Foreign currency assets expressed in US dollar terms include the effect of appreciation/depreciation of non-US currencies (such as Euro, Sterling, Yen) held in reserves. For details, please refer to the Current Statistics section of the RBI Bulletin.
** Reserve Position in the International Monetary Fund (IMF), i.e., Reserve Tranche Position (RTP) which was shown as a memo item from May 23, 2003 to March 26, 2004 has been included in the reserves from the week ended April 2, 2004 in keeping with the international best practice.
@ Includes SDR 3,082.5 million (equivalent to US$ 4,883 million) allocated under general allocation and SDR 214.6 million (equivalent to US $ 340 million) allocated under special allocation by IMF done on August 28, 2009 and September 9, 2009, respectively.
$ Includes ` 31,463 crore (USD 6,699 million) reflecting the purchase of 200 metric tonnes of gold from IMF on November 3, 2009.


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