Item

As on April 27, 2012

Variation over

Week

End-March 2012

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

15,518.6

295,361.2

222.0

758.3

457.3

963.7

–286.1

–1,327.5

1,605.0

–18,150.4

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

13,747.1

260,954.7

215.8

736.4*

442.0

886.0

–259.4

–1,978.6

1,230.3

–21,082.4

(b) Gold $

1,382.5

27,023.1

—

—

—

—

–35.6

402.8

326.7

3,232.6

(c) SDRs @

235.5

4,470.4

3.7

13.2

6.9

1.1

–0.4

41.4

28.2

–200.8

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

153.5

2,913.0

2.5

8.7

8.4

76.6

9.3

206.9

19.8

–99.8

+ Excludes ` 35.4 billion/US$ 673 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.