The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of automotive emissions testing equipment, that activity is 26512.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
26512 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of automotive emissions testing equipment: a sub-class of class 2651, manufacture of measuring, testing, navigating and control equipment, within division 26, manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 26Group 265Class 2651Sub-class 26512
Manufacture of automotive emissions testing equipment
Sub-class 26512 · Class 2651 · Group 265 · Division 26 · Section C, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
265125 digits: 26 + 5 + 1 + 2NIC 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 26512. 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 26 covers manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products. It sits in section C, manufacturing.
Manufacture of measuring, testing, navigating and control equipment; watches and clocks.
Manufacture of measuring, testing, navigating and control equipment. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of automotive emissions testing equipment. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
26512 is a sub-class of class 2651, manufacture of measuring, testing, navigating and control equipment. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of telephone answering machines, see 2630
- - manufacture of medical testing and irradiation equipment, see 2660
- - manufacture of optical positioning equipment, see 2670
- - manufacture of dictating machines, see 2817
- - manufacture of simple mechanical measuring tools (e.g. measuring tapes, calipers), see manufacturing class according to main material used
- - installation of industrial process control equipment, see 3320
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 26512 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of automotive emissions testing equipment, that activity is 26512.
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
26512 is for manufacture of automotive emissions testing equipment. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 2651. Each has its own page with the official wording.
26513Class 2651 · another sub-class of the same class26514Class 2651 · another sub-class of the same class26515Class 2651 · another sub-class of the same class26516Class 2651 · another sub-class of the same class26517Class 2651 · another sub-class of the same classClass 2651 has 8 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 26512. 5 of the others are shown here.
Questions
Manufacture of automotive emissions testing equipment, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 2651, manufacture of measuring, testing, navigating and control equipment.
Class 2651, manufacture of measuring, testing, navigating and control equipment, has 8 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 26512, those with a page here are: 26513 (Manufacture of consumption meters for electricity, water or gas, flow meters and counting meters); 26514 (Manufacture of meteorological instruments); 26515 (Manufacture of radar equipment, GPS devices, search, detection, navigation, aeronautical and nautical equipment); 26516 (Manufacture of laboratory analytical instruments and miscellaneous laboratory apparatus for measuring and testing such as scales, balances, incubators etc.); 26517 (Manufacture of industrial process control equipment).
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, and the explanatory note for class 2651, 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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