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Date : Dec 28, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on December 21, 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

16,319.6

296,538.8

182.5

–92.8

1,258.3

2,141.3

514.9

–149.9

473.5

–4,323.6

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,429.8

261,949.8

173.6

–169.9*

1,124.7

1,881.1

423.3

–983.5

424.4

–3,706.6

(b) Gold $

1,516.0

27,803.1

133.5

780.0

97.9

1,182.8

53.1

–237.7

(c) SDRs @

245.2

4,452.0

3.9

15.8

16.6

–17.3

9.3

23.0

10.7

4.3

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

128.6

2,333.9

5.0

61.3

–16.5

–502.5

–15.6

–372.2

–14.7

–383.6

+ Excludes ` 43.5 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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