| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Variation over | | | | Item | As on Feb. 18, 2005 | Week | End-March2004 | End-December 2004 | Year | | | | Rs.Crore | US$ Mn. | Rs.Crore | US$ Mn. | Rs.Crore | US$ Mn. | Rs.Crore | US$ Mn. | Rs.Crore | US$ Mn. | 1 | | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Total Reserves | 5,82,828 | 1,32,959 | 13,689 | 2,979 | 92,699 | 20,000 | 11,150 | 1,781 | 89,371 | 23,960 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (a) Foreign Currency Assets | 5,57,436 | 1,27,152 | 13,667 | 2,975* | 91,221 | 19,704 | 11,970 | 1,988 | 89,415 | 23,768 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (b) Gold | 19,181 | 4,390 | — | — | 965 | 192 | –788 | –192 | –251 | 101 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (c) SDRs | 20 | 5 | –25 | –5 | 10 | 3 | –2 | — | 9 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (d) Reserve Position in the IMF** | 6,191 | 1,412 | 47 | 9 | 503 | 101 | –30 | –15 | 198 | 88 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * : 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. |
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