NEW DELHI: Most of the auto stocks were trading with gains in early session of trade on Monday, buoyed by reports of good sales numbers for the month of March.

The Nifty Auto was trading 1.53 per cent up at 10,987 around 10:40 am (IST).

Shares of Bosch (up 5.26 per cent), Tata Motors (up 2.57 per cent), Amara Raja Batteries (up 2.11 per cent) and Maruti Suzuki India (up 2.09 per cent) were the top gainers in the auto index.

Shares of Tata Motors got traction after it reported on Sunday a 35 per cent increase in total sales in March.

The country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) also reported a 14.9 per cent increase in total sales at in March.

TVS Motor Company (up 2.01 per cent), Motherson Sumi Systems (up 1.95 per cent), Bajaj Auto (up 1.44 per cent), Exide Industries (up 1.41 per cent), Ashok Leyland (up 1.41 per cent), MRF (up 0.74 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (up 0.74 per cent), Bharat Forge (up 0.49 per cent), Eicher Motors (up 0.44 per cent) and Mahindra & Mahindra (up 0.32 per cent) were also among the gainers.

Meanwhile, shares of Apollo Tyres (down 0.49 per cent) were slightly down around that time.

Equity benchmarks were trading higher on across the board buying.

The NSE Nifty50 index was up 36 points at 10,150, while the BSE Sensex was up 95 points at 33,064.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 37 were trading in the green, while 13 were in the red.