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Date : Aug 17, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on August 10, 2012

Variation over

Week

End-March
2012

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

16,014.7

289,169.9

–194.0

17.8

953.4

–5,227.6

210.0

–7,518.8

1,680.9

–27,435.5

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,218.0

256,919.8

–192.0

–34.1*

912.9

–3,148.9

211.5

–6,013.5

1,348.0

–26,747.3

(b) Gold $

1,435.1

25,714.7

52.6

–1,308.4

17.0

–905.6

315.7

366.0

(c) SDRs @

240.6

4,348.3

–3.3

–1.5

12.0

–121.0

4.7

–80.7

31.2

–266.1

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

121.0

2,187.1

1.3

53.4

–24.1

–649.3

–23.2

–519.0

–14.0

–788.1

+ Excludes ` 43.7 billion/US$ 790 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.


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