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Date : Oct 05, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on September 28, 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

15,535.7

294,812.2

–358.7

837.8

474.4

414.7

–269.0

–1,876.5

294.9

–16,669.8

(a) Foreign Currency Assets+

13,699.1

259,958.4

–371.9

–1,072.7*

394.0

–110.3

–307.4

–2,974.9

209.2

–15,740.7

(b) Gold $

1,482.5

28,132.9

20.4

1,893.5

100.0

1,109.8

64.4

1,512.6

79.8

–533.8

(c) SDRs @

234.5

4,450.9

–5.9

–9.5

5.9

–18.4

–1.4

21.9

14.1

–52.8

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

119.6

2,270.0

–1.3

26.5

–25.5

–566.4

–24.6

–436.1

–8.2

–342.5

+ Excludes `41.6 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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