Item

As on March 9, 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

14,673.5

293,959.0

127.2

–1,029.8

1,063.4

–10,859.1

–1,131.2

–2,729.7

1,028.0

–7,878.5

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

12,934.1

258,578.7

123.0

–1,017.6*

685.3

–15,751.1

–1,072.4

–4,354.6

625.2

–13,680.8

(b) Gold $

1,376.6

28,127.7

—

—

350.9

5,155.3

–41.5

1,507.4

376.2

5,985.0

(c) SDRs @

222.6

4,449.6

2.6

–7.5

18.6

–119.4

–13.3

20.6

–11.1

–719.2

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

140.2

2,803.0

1.6

–4.7

8.6

–143.9

–4.0

96.9

37.7

536.5

 +   Excludes ` 27.5 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.