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Date : Jun 04, 2005
2. Foreign Exchange Reserves
               
             

Variation over

     

Item

As on May 27, 2005

Week

End-March2005

End-December 2004

Year

   

Rs.Crore

US$ Mn.

Rs.Crore

US$ Mn.

Rs.Crore

US$ Mn.

Rs.Crore

US$ Mn.

Rs.Crore

US$ Mn.

1

 

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

                       

Total Reserves

6,08,595

1,39,829

1,033

175

–10,521

–1,685

36,917

8,651

65,159

20,009

                       

(a) Foreign Currency Assets

5,82,941

1,33,948

1,054

181*

–10,180

–1,623

37,475

8,784

64,015

19,622

                       

(b) Gold

19,393

4,443

–293

–57

–576

–139

795

252

                       

(c) SDRs

19

4

–1

–1

–3

–1

11

2

                       

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

6,242

1,434

–21

–6

–47

–4

21

7

338

133

                       

*: 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.


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