Foreign exchange (forex) reserves increased by $1.46 billion to $ 277.73 billion during the week ended October 4, 2013 due to a jump in foreign currency assets, Reserve Bank of India data said.
In the previous reporting week, forex reserves fell by $1.12 billion to $276.26 billion during the week ending September 27.
In the week ending October 4, foreign currency assets were up by $1.40 billion to $249.32 billion. After the gold reserve remained unchanged for the previous four weeks, it increased in the week under review by $41.3 million to $21.77 billion.
The other components of forex reserves include special drawing rights which rose by $14.7 million to $4.44 billion, and the country's reserve position in the IMF was up marginally by $7.2 million to $2.20 billion.
Since March this year, the forex reserves have fallen by $14.32 billion, RBI data showed.
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