NEW DELHI: The S&P BSE Capital Goods index was up in Monday's afternoon session.

Shares of Hindustan Aeronautics (up 4.37 per cent) , Honeywell Automation India (up 3.15 per cent) , NBCC (India) (up 2.51 per cent) and Larsen & Toubro (up 1.90 per cent) were trading with gains.

Solar Industries India (up 1.84 per cent) , Graphite India (up 1.84 per cent) , Finolex Cables (up 1.62 per cent) and Elgi Equipments (up 1.27 per cent) too were trading higher.

The S&P BSE Capital Goods index was trading 1.44 per cent up at 17,206.99 around 11:48 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 66.15 points at 11,012.35 while the BSE Sensex was up 224.36 points at 37,206.13.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 12 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Tata Motors, RBL Bank, Equitas Holdings, JSPL, Ashok Leyland, PNB, NCC and SAIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.