Item

As on March 2, 2012

Variation over

Week

End-March 2011

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

14,546.3

294,988.8

52.0

–58.8

936.2

–9,829.3

–1,258.4

–1,699.9

928.5

–7,604.8

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

12,811.1

259,596.3

–1.2

–1,505.4*

562.3

–14,733.5

–1,195.4

–3,337.0

530.5

–13,368.2

(b) Gold $

1,376.6

28,127.7

48.8

1,400.1

350.9

5,155.3

–41.5

1,507.4

376.2

5,985.0

(c) SDRs @

220.0

4,457.1

0.1

–23.8

16.0

–111.9

–15.9

28.1

–14.1

–747.2

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

138.6

2,807.7

4.3

70.3

7.0

–139.2

–5.6

101.6

35.9

525.6

+ Excludes ` 27.1 billion/US$ 550 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.