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Date : Mar 18, 2011
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on Mar. 11, 2011

Variation over

Week

End-March 2010

End-December 2010

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

13,64,541

301,838

2,752

–755

1,04,876

22,781

32,187

4,504

91,875

22,130

(a) Foreign Currency Assets+

12,30,885

272,259

2,818

–705 *

81,235

17,574

30,808

4,445

70,453

16,938

(b) Gold $

1,00,041

22,143

18,853

4,157

–645

–327

17,196

4,223

(c) SDRs @

23,368

5,169

–46

–35

772

163

615

91

331

100

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

10,247

2,267

–20

–15

4,016

887

1,409

295

3,895

869

+ Excludes ` 1,130 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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