Foreign Exchange Reserves

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Date: August 21, 2009

Item		As on Aug. 14, 2009		Variation over
		As on Aug. 14, 2009		Week		End- March 2009		End- December 2008		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		13,08,131	271,025	9,691	-214	24,266	19,040	67,970	15,057	40,079	-25,185
(a)	Foreign Currency Assets +	12,55,067	260,010	9,659	-209*	25,001	18,584	60,277	13,407	30,522	-25,965
(b)	Gold	46,576	9,671	—	—	-2,217	94	5,466	1,186	5,210	-64
(c)	SDRs	1	—	-2	-1	-5	-1	-12	-3	-15	-4
(d)	Reserve Position in the IMF**	6,487	1,344	34	-4	1,487	363	2,239	467	4,362	848
+ : Excludes Rs.1207 crore /US$ 250 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.