Item

As on April 20, 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

15,296.6

294,602.9

230.3

1,461.7

235.3

205.4

–508.1

–2,085.8

1,568.5

–15,102.9

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

13,531.3

260,218.3

225.6

1,453.1*

226.2

149.6

–475.2

–2,715.0

1,166.3

–18,901.0

(b) Gold $

1,382.5

27,023.1

—

—

—

—

–35.6

402.8

356.8

4,050.7

(c) SDRs @

231.8

4,457.2

2.9

5.2

3.2

–12.1

–4.1

28.2

26.7

–171.5

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

151.0

2,904.3

1.8

3.4

5.9

67.9

6.8

198.2

18.7

–81.1

+ Excludes ` 35 billion/US$ 673 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.