Among the components of the BSE Utilities index, Adani Green Energy Ltd (down 5.11%), Adani Energy Solutions Ltd (down 4.46%),Enviro Infra Engineers Ltd (down 4.27%),Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (down 4%),SJVN Ltd (down 3.76%), were the top losers. Among the other losers were K.P. Energy Ltd (down 3.76%), ACME Solar Holdings Ltd (down 3.6%), Adani Power Ltd (down 3.59%), Va Tech Wabag Ltd (down 3.52%), and Orient Green Power Company Ltd (down 3.41%).
On the other hand, Nava Ltd (up 2.08%), Ion Exchange (India) Ltd (up 0.6%), and EMS Ltd (up 0.3%) turned up.
At 13:47 IST, the BSE SmallCap was down 1067.38 or 2.17% at 48200.05.
The BSE 150 MidCap Index index was down 283.44 points or 1.87% at 14862.39.
The Nifty 50 index was down 162.1 points or 0.67% at 24084.6.
The BSE Sensex index was down 441.16 points or 0.55% at 79360.27.
On BSE,625 shares were trading in green, 3269 were trading in red and 141 were unchanged.