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Date : Dec 30, 2005
Foreign Exchange Reserves

 

             

Variation over

     

Item

As on Dec. 23, 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

6,50,909

1,44,050

–7,377

–950

31,793

2,536

79,231

12,872

76,505

13,035

                       

(a) Foreign Currency Assets

6,24,150

1,38,209

–5,799

607*

31,029

2,638

78,684

13,045

76,309

13,160

                       

(b) Gold

22,626

4,925

2,940

425

2,657

343

2,310

385

                       

(c) SDRs

20

5

1

–2

–2

                       

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

4,113

911

–1,577

343

–2,176

–527

–2,108

–516

–2,112

–510

                       

*: 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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