The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of data communications equipment, such as bridges, routers, and gateways, that activity is 26303.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
26303 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of data communications equipment, such as bridges, routers, and gateways: a sub-class of class 2630, manufacture of communication 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 263Class 2630Sub-class 26303
Manufacture of data communications equipment, such as bridges, routers, and gateways
Sub-class 26303 · Class 2630 · Group 263 · 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.
263035 digits: 26 + 3 + 0 + 3NIC 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 26303. 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 communication equipment.
Manufacture of communication equipment. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of data communications equipment, such as bridges, routers, and gateways. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
26303 is a sub-class of class 2630, manufacture of communication equipment. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes the manufacture of telephone and data communications equipment used to move signals electronically over wires or through the air such as radio and television broadcast and wireless communications equipment
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of computers and computer peripheral equipment, see 2620
- - manufacture of consumer audio and video equipment, see 2640
- - manufacture of electronic components and subassemblies used in communications equipment, see 2610
- - manufacture of internal/external computer modems (PC-type), see 2610
- - manufacture of electronic scoreboards, see 2790
- - manufacture of traffic lights, see 2790
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 26303 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of data communications equipment, such as bridges, routers, and gateways, that activity is 26303.
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
26303 is for manufacture of data communications equipment, such as bridges, routers, and gateways. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 2630. Each has its own page with the official wording.
26304Class 2630 · another sub-class of the same class26305Class 2630 · another sub-class of the same class26309Class 2630 · another sub-class of the same class26301Class 2630 · another sub-class of the same classClass 2630 has 6 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 26303. 4 of the others are shown here.
Questions
Manufacture of data communications equipment, such as bridges, routers, and gateways, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 2630, manufacture of communication equipment.
Class 2630, manufacture of communication equipment, has 6 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 26303, those with a page here are: 26304 (Manufacture of cable television equipment, transmitting and receiving antenna including dish, VSAT); 26305 (Manufacture of pagers, cellular phones and other mobile communication equipment); 26309 (Manufacture of other communication equipments n.e.c.); 26301 (Manufacture of radio and television studio and broadcasting equipment, including television cameras).
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 2630, 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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