The country's foreign exchange reserves increased by $25.6 billion during April-December 2006, with foreign investment and external commercial borrowings being the major source of accretion.
 
In the year-ago period, forex reserves had dipped by $4.3 billion, the Reserve Bank said today.
 
As of March 16, India's forex reserves stood at $195.957 billion. While foreign investment witnessed a moderate decline to $11 billion during the period as against $11.5 billion in 2005, external commercial borrowings increased to $9.1 billion as against a decline of $1.2 billion in April- December 2005.
 
The share of NRI deposits in banking capital increased to $3.2 billion from $1.1 billion last year. The valuation gain, due to the appreciation of major currencies against the US dollar accounted for $9.4 billion as against a valuation loss of $6.1 billion, the RBI said.

 
 

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First Published: Mar 31 2007 | 12:00 AM IST

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