Government today informed the Lok Sabha that the position of the country's Foreign Exchange Reserves is comfortable. In a written reply in the House, the Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee said that the reserves have risen from 252 billion from last financial year to 279 billion US dollars at the end of this fiscal. He informed the members that the appreciation of US dollars in the international market in 2008-09 had an impact on foreign exchange reserves particularly from March, 2008 to March, 2009.<br/>