Item

As on March 23, 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

14,970.2

295,140.0

176.2

318.6

1,360.1

–9,678.1

–834.5

–1,548.7

1,408.0

–8,341.7

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

13,223.4

259,740.5

168.5

251.2*

974.6

–14,589.3

–783.1

–3,192.8

1,002.8

–13,957.5

(b) Gold $

1,376.6

28,127.7

—

—

350.9

5,155.3

–41.5

1,507.4

376.2

5,985.0

(c) SDRs @

226.5

4,448.5

4.1

28.6

22.5

–120.5

–9.4

19.5

–7.1

–783.8

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

143.7

2,823.3

3.6

38.8

12.1

–123.6

–0.5

117.2

36.1

414.6

+ Excludes ` 28.0 billion/US$ 550 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.