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Date : Sep 28, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on September 21, 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

15,894.4

293,974.4

–247.6

–502.4

833.1

–423.1

89.7

–2,714.3

465.7

–18,732.3

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,071.0

261,031.1

–241.1

–485.6*

765.9

962.4

64.5

–1,902.2

315.7

–15,902.8

(b) Gold $

1,462.1

26,239.4

 

79.6

–783.7

44.0

–380.9

158.9

–2,079.3

(c) SDRs @

240.4

4,460.4

–4.3

–11.2

11.8

–8.9

4.5

31.4

17.1

–36.3

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

120.9

2,243.5

–2.2

–5.6

–24.2

–592.9

–23.3

–462.6

–26.0

–713.9

+ Excludes ` 42.6 billion/US$ 790 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.


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