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Date : Mar 24, 2006
Foreign Exchange Reserves

 

               
             

Variation over

     

Item

As on Mar. 17, 2006

Week

End-March2005

End-December 2005

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

6,49,253

1,46,159

8,837

2,238

30,137

4,645

30,870

8,953

28,310

4,029

                       

(a) Foreign Currency Assets

6,20,340

1,39,653

8,825

2,234*

27,219

4,082

29,843

8,635

24,885

3,362

                       

(b) Gold

25,541

5,747

5,855

1,247

1,771

473

6,445

1,371

                       

(c) SDRs

12

3

–8

–2

–8

–2

–8

–2

                       

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

3,360

756

12

4

–2,929

–682

–736

–153

–3,012

–702

                       

*: 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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