The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of other electrical equipment, that activity is 27900.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
27900 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of other electrical equipment: a sub-class of class 2790, manufacture of other electrical equipment, within division 27, manufacture of electrical equipment. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 27Group 279Class 2790Sub-class 27900
Manufacture of other electrical equipment
Sub-class 27900 · Class 2790 · Group 279 · Division 27 · 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.
279005 digits: 27 + 9 + 0 + 0NIC 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 27900. 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 27 covers manufacture of electrical equipment. It sits in section C, manufacturing.
Manufacture of other electrical equipment.
Manufacture of other electrical equipment. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of other electrical equipment. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
27900 is a sub-class of class 2790, manufacture of other electrical equipment. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes the manufacture of miscellaneous electrical equipment other than motors, generators and transformers, batteries and accumulators, wires and wiring devices, lighting equipment or domestic appliances
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 27900 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of other electrical equipment, that activity is 27900.
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.
Questions
Manufacture of other electrical equipment, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 2790, manufacture of other electrical 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 2790, 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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