2. Foreign Exchange Reserves - ଆରବିଆଇ - Reserve Bank of India
2. Foreign Exchange Reserves
Variation over | ||||||||||
Item | As on May 28, 2004 | Week | End-March2004 | End-December 2003 | 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 | 5,43,436 | 1,19,820 | 6,352 | 1,248 | 53,307 | 6,861 | 72,964 | 16,669 | 1,57,533 | 37,789 |
(a) Foreign Currency Assets | 5,18,926 | 1,14,326 | 6,285 | 1,235* | 52,711 | 6,878 | 73,694 | 16,709 | 1,52,377 | 36,387 |
(b) Gold | 18,598 | 4,191 | — | — | 382 | –7 | –627 | –24 | 2,550 | 802 |
(c) SDRs | 8 | 2 | — | — | –2 | — | –5 | –1 | 2 | 1 |
(d) Reserve Position in the IMF** | 5,904 | 1,301 | 67 | 13 | 216 | –10 | –98 | –15 | 2,604 | 599 |
* : 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.