Foreign Exchange Reserves

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Date: August 07, 2009

Item	As on Jul. 31, 2009		Variation over
	As on Jul. 31, 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	13,08,220	271,641	13,533	3,930	24,355	19,656	68,059	15,673	13,809	–33,833
(a) Foreign Currency Assets +	12,55,197	260,631	13,489	3,974*	25,131	19,205	60,407	14,028	4,368	–34,585
(b) Gold	46,576	9,671	–338	–129	–2,217	94	5,466	1,186	5,210	–64
(c) SDRs	3	1	—	—	–3	—	–10	–2	–44	–10
(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**	6,444	1,338	382	85	1,444	357	2,196	461	4,275	826
+ : Excludes Rs.1204 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.