NEW DELHI: The BSE Power index was trading 1 per cent up at 2,204 around 1 pm (IST) on Friday, with shares of GMR Infrastructure (up 4.55 per cent), Reliance Infrastructure (up 2.93 per cent) and CESC (up 2.56 per cent) as the top gainers.

Shares of Reliance Power (up 1.84 per cent), Bharat Heavy Electrical(BHEL) (up 1.81 per cent), Torrent Power (up 1.72 per cent), Adani Power (up 1.60 per cent), JSW Energy (up 1.52 per cent), Adani Transmission (up 1.23 per cent), CG Power and Industrial Solutions (up 1.23 per cent), NTPC (up 1.18 per cent) and ABB India (up 0.94 per cent) were also among the gainers.

Siemens (down 2.30 per cent) was the only stock in the BSE Power index that was in the red around that time.

Equity benchmarks were in the positive territory, backed by gains in metal, pharma and bank stocks.

The BSE Sensex was 243 points up at 34,062, while the NSE Nifty50 index was 86 points up at 10,469.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 42 were trading in the green, while 8 were in the red.

Tata Steel, Sun Pharma, Dr Reddy's Labs and YES Bank were among the top gainers in the Sensex index.

However, Asian Paints, Coal India and Infosys were among the losers in the Sensex kitty of stocks.