NEW DELHI: The BSE Consumer Durables was trading as the top gainer among the sectoral indices on BSE during afternoon trade on Monday.

Around 12:50 pm, the consumer durables index was 1.93 per cent up at 20,807, with PC Jeweller (up 8.59 per cent) as the top gainer.

Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (up 3.25 per cent), VIP Industries (up 2.55 per cent), Blue Star (up 2.43 per cent), Titan Company (up 1.76 per cent), Rajesh Exports (up 1.50 per cent), Bajaj Electricals (up 0.86 per cent), Symphony (up 0.73 per cent) and Whirlpool of India (up 0.34 per cent) were the gainers in the index.

TTK Prestige (down 0.46 per cent) was the only stock in the index that was in the red around that time.

Market was in the positive territory on buying in all sectors. Besides consumer durables, telecom, pharma, FMCG, bank and financial stocks were witnessing decent buying interest.

Benchmark BSE Sensex was up 202 points at 35,646, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 70 points at 10,837.

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

In the Sensex pack of stocks, 26 stocks were in the green, while 5 were in the red.

Bharti Airtel, with a gain of over 3 per cent, was leading the pack of Sensex gainers.