Tata Motors Ltd.(up 2.26 per cent), Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.(up 1.36 per cent), Ashok Leyland Ltd.(up 1.32 per cent), Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(up 1.07 per cent) and Bharat Forge Ltd.(up 0.77 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Tube Investments of India Ltd.(down 2.86 per cent), Bosch Ltd.(down 0.64 per cent) and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(down 0.14 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was up 0.46 per cent at 16166.05 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 76.0 points at 19599.55, while the BSE Sensex was up 215.9 points at 65724.22.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 35 were trading in the green, while 15 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, JP Power, IOB and IFCI were among the most traded shares on the NSE.