NEW DELHI: A majority of power stocks including CG Power and Industrial Solutions (up 5.17 per cent) and Reliance Power (up 4.64 per cent) were trading with gains in afternoon trade on Tuesday.The BSE Power index was trading 0.90 per cent up at 2,103 around 1 pm.
Shares of PTC India, Torrent Power, Suzlon Energy, GMR Infrastructure, Reliance Infrastructure, NTPC and BHEL climbed up to 2 per cent.NHPC (up 1.54 per cent), KEC International (up 1.15 per cent), CESC (up 0.46 per cent), Tata Power Company (up 0.19 per cent) and JSW Energy (up 0.07 per cent) were also gaining in trade.
However, shares of Adani Power (down 0.72 per cent), Adani Transmission (down 0.48 per cent), ABB India (down 0.22 per cent), Power Grid Corporation of India (down 0.21 per cent) and Siemens (down 0.07 per cent) were in the red around that time.Market was in the green on gains in auto, private bank, financial, metal and pharma stocks.
Benchmark BSE Sensex was up 81 points at 34,697, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 22 points at 10,539.In the Sensex index, 19 stocks were up, while 12 were down.Tata Motors, Bajaj Auto, Coal India and Dr Reddy's labs were the top gainers in the Sensex index.On the contrary, Adani Ports, Asian Paints and ITC were among the top Sensex losers.