Item

As on Feb. 17, 2012

Variation over

Week

End-March
2011

End-December
2011

Year

`
Bn.

US$
Mn.

`
Bn.

US$
Mn.

`
Bn.

US$
Mn.

`
Bn.

US$
Mn.

`
Bn.

US$
Mn.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Total Reserves

14,452.8

293,439.7

–111.7

55.8

842.7

–11,378.4

–1,351.9

–3,249.0

853.5

–7,188.0

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

12,771.7

259,534.3

–107.2

87.5*

522.9

–14,795.5

–1,234.8

–3,399.0

513.7

–11,779.5

(b) Gold $

1,327.8

26,727.6

—

—

302.1

3,755.2

–90.3

107.3

320.4

4,804.1

(c) SDRs @

219.3

4,455.6

–2.8

–19.3

15.3

–113.4

–16.6

26.6

–12.8

–681.7

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

134.0

2,722.2

–1.7

–12.4

2.4

–224.7

–10.2

16.1

32.2

469.1

+ Excludes `18.7 billion/US$ 380 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 `314.6 billion (US$ 6,699 million) reflecting the purchase of 200 metric tonnes of gold from IMF on November 3, 2009.