Foreign currency assets, during the week, marginally went up to $254.730 billion from $252.755 billion in the previous week, the RBI said in its weekly report on Friday.
Foreign currency assets expressed in the US dollar terms include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US currencies, such as the euro, sterling and yen held in the reserves, the apex bank said.
During the week, the gold reserves also marked a marginal rise to $17.986 billion as against the previous week's $17.920 billion, while a similar increase was seen in the special drawing rights too, which rose to $5 billion from $4.991 billion, the apex bank said.
The reserve position in the International Monetary Fund also jumped slightly to $1.379 billion from $1.376 billion, the RBI said.
During the 2009-10 fiscal, banks' total credit disbursement stood at Rs 4,64,849 crore (Rs 4.64 trillion), registering a year-on-year growth of 16.7 per cent as against a growth of 17.5 per cent in the previous fiscal, the RBI data showed.
During the fortnight ending March 26, banks disbursed a total of Rs 1,15,548 crore (Rs 1.15 trillion) to meet the 16 per cent credit growth target set by the Reserve Bank for 2009-10.
As on March 26, banks' total loan outstanding stood at Rs 32,40,399 crore (Rs 32.4 trillion) and the aggregate deposits at Rs 44,86,574 crore (Rs 44.8 trillion), the data showed.
Recently, at the pre-policy consultation meet with the Reserve Bank governor, Indian Banks Association had pegged the credit growth for banks in FY11 at 20-22 per cent.