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Date : Nov 18, 2005
Foreign Exchange Reserves

 

             

Variation over

     

Item

As on Nov. 11, 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

6,51,027

1,42,308

3,542

–310

31,911

794

79,349

11,130

92,526

18,770

                       

(a) Foreign Currency Assets

6,23,035

1,36,123

3,551

–297*

29,914

552

77,569

10,959

90,374

18,278

                       

(b) Gold

21,943

4,864

2,257

364

1,974

282

2,167

513

                       

(c) SDRs

21

4

1

1

–1

–1

–1

–1

–1

                       

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

6,028

1,317

–10

–13

–261

–121

–193

–110

–14

–20

                       

*: 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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