Variation over

Item

As on Feb. 28, 2003

Week

End-March2002

End-December 2002

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

3,47,405

72,877

-12,359

-2,477

83,369

18,771

9,056

2,432

1,00,007

   22,133

of which :

(a) Foreign Currency Assets

3,29,627

69,148

-12,488

-2,514*⁺

80,509

18,099

7,853

2,154

97,177

21,466

(b) Gold

17,759

3,725

129

37

2,891

678

1,217

281

2,861

673

(c) SDRs

19

4

-

-

-31

-6

-14

-3

-31

-6

*

:  

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.

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The variation in foreign currency assets during the week of February 28, 2003 includes the effect of purchases of US $ 3,035 million by Government of India from the Reserve Bank of India for prepayment of foreign currency loans from the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.