Among the components of the BSE Commodities index, Refex Industries Ltd (up 10.75%), PCBL Ltd (up 5.52%),Chemcon Speciality Chemicals Ltd (up 4.6%),Bhagiradha Chemicals & Industries Ltd (up 4.45%),Sudarshan Chemical Industries Ltd (up 4.04%), were the top gainers. Among the other gainers were Solar Industries India Ltd (up 4.02%), NMDC Steel Ltd (up 3.97%), Lloyds Enterprises Ltd (up 3.78%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd (up 3.39%), and BIGBLOC Construction Ltd (up 3.23%).

On the other hand, JK Paper Ltd (down 1.33%), Astec Lifesciences Ltd (down 1.17%), and Kuantum Papers Ltd (down 1.14%) moved lower.

At 09:47 IST, the BSE SmallCap was up 347.9 or 0.65% at 54127.88.

The BSE 150 MidCap Index index was up 77.82 points or 0.48% at 16267.65.

The Nifty 50 index was up 14.95 points or 0.06% at 24339.4.

The BSE Sensex index was up 13.42 points or 0.02% at 79938.19.

On BSE,2180 shares were trading in green, 940 were trading in red and 115 were unchanged.