The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For activities of other wireless telecommunications activities, that activity is 61209.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
61209 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for activities of other wireless telecommunications activities: a sub-class of class 6120, wireless telecommunications activities, within division 61, telecommunications. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 61Group 612Class 6120Sub-class 61209
Activities of other wireless telecommunications activities
Sub-class 61209 · Class 6120 · Group 612 · Division 61 · Section J, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
612095 digits: 61 + 2 + 0 + 9NIC 2025 · Notice dated 16 October 2026
On 18 November 2025 the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released NIC 2025, which uses 6-digit codes aligned with the UN's ISIC Revision 5. This page shows the NIC 2008 code 61209. The matching NIC 2025 code will be added here once it is mapped from MoSPI's official concordance.
How to read it
An NIC code is built in layers. Each digit narrows the one before it: the division, the group, the class, and finally the 5-digit sub-class. Divisions themselves are grouped under lettered sections.
The broadest numbered layer. Division 61 covers telecommunications. It sits in section J, information and communication.
Wireless telecommunications activities.
Wireless telecommunications activities.
Activities of other wireless telecommunications activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 61209 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For activities of other wireless telecommunications activities, that activity is 61209.
The company incorporation form asks for the main industrial activity of the proposed company by NIC code.
Not GST. GST registration does not use NIC codes; goods and services there are classified by HSN and SAC codes.
Choosing the right code
61209 is for activities of other wireless telecommunications activities. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 6120. Each has its own page with the official wording.
Class 6120 has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 61209. 1 of the others are shown here.
Questions
Activities of other wireless telecommunications activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 6120, wireless telecommunications activities.
Class 6120, wireless telecommunications activities, has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 61209, those with a page here are: 61201 (Activities of Internet access by the operator of the wireless infrastructure).
In Udyam Registration, which asks for the business activity by NIC code, and in the SPICe+ company incorporation form, which asks for the main industrial activity by NIC code. GST registration does not use NIC codes.
About this page
The section, division, group, class and sub-class on this page are taken word for word from the official document “National Industrial Classification (All Economic Activities) 2008”, Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.
This is reference information on the classification of a business activity. It is not advice on which code your own business should declare, and the official NIC document prevails if the two ever differ. A change in the classification, including the MoSPI concordance to NIC 2025, re-opens this page for checking.
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