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International Monetary Fund hikes SDR allocation to India

SDR is an alternate reserve currency floated by the IMF

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India holds 2.75 per cent of SDR quota

Anup Roy
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has sharply increased its allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) to India, in line with the country's existing quota in the fund. 

SDR is an alternate reserve currency floated by the IMF, which the member countries can freely exchange between themselves instead of relying on currency of any one particular country. SDR is a basket of U.S. dollar, Japanese yen, euro, pound sterling and Chinese Renminbi.

A statement by the Reserve Bank of India said on Wednesday that the IMF has increased India's SDR quota to 12.57 billion, which is equivalent to $17.86 billion at

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