Mumbai, April 22 (IANS): A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), made healthy gains during the pre-afternoon trade session on Wednesday. It was trading up nearly 115 points or 0.41 percent.

The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) also made gains during the pre-afternoon trade session. It was up by 18.25 points or 0.22 percent at 8,396 points.

The Sensex of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 27,756.68 points, was trading at 27,790.21 points (at 11.00 a.m.) in the early session, up 114.17 points or 0.41 percent from the previous day's close at 27,676.04 points.

The Sensex had touched a high of 27,827.66 points and a low of 27,687.78 points in the intra-day trade so far.

In Wednesday's trade, so far healthy buying was observed in healthcare, capital goods and banks Asectors.

However, stocks of information technology (IT), technology, entertainment and media (TECK) and consumer durables came under heavy selling pressure.

The BSE S&P healthcare index grew by 208.15 points, followed by capital goods index which increased by 132.31 points and banks index gained by 69.93 points.

However, the S&P BSE IT index was down by 111.42 points, TECK index was lower by 56.59 points and consumer durables index declined by 29.32 points.