 "Commercial vehicles makers gain as outlay under JNNURM doubles")
Tata Motors moved up by 2.58% to Rs 293.40, while Ashok Leyland jumped 2.15% to Rs 23.25 on the BSE.
Among other auto stocks, Hero MotoCorp was trading 0.65% higher, while Bajaj Auto was up 0.27%.
The Finance Minister proposed to allocate Rs 14,873 crore for Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for urban transportation in 2013-14, against Rs 7,880 crore in the current fiscal.
In the stock market, the BSE benchmark 30-share index Sensex was trading at 19,173.06, up 20.65 points at 1212 hrs.