The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of electronic games, that activity is 32405.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
32405 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of electronic games: a sub-class of class 3240, manufacture of games and toys, within division 32, other manufacturing. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 32Group 324Class 3240Sub-class 32405
Manufacture of electronic games
Sub-class 32405 · Class 3240 · Group 324 · Division 32 · 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.
324055 digits: 32 + 4 + 0 + 5NIC 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 32405. 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 32 covers other manufacturing. It sits in section C, manufacturing.
Manufacture of games and toys.
Manufacture of games and toys. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of electronic games. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
32405 is a sub-class of class 3240, manufacture of games and toys. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of video game consoles, see 2640
- - manufacture of bicycles, see 3092
- - writing and publishing of software for video game consoles, see 5820, 6201
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 32405 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of electronic games, that activity is 32405.
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
32405 is for manufacture of electronic games. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 3240. Each has its own page with the official wording.
32409Class 3240 · another sub-class of the same class32401Class 3240 · another sub-class of the same class32402Class 3240 · another sub-class of the same class32403Class 3240 · another sub-class of the same class32404Class 3240 · another sub-class of the same classClass 3240 has 6 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 32405.
Questions
Manufacture of electronic games, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 3240, manufacture of games and toys.
Class 3240, manufacture of games and toys, has 6 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 32405, they are: 32409 (Manufacture of other games and toys n.e.c.); 32401 (Manufacture of dolls and toy animals); 32402 (Manufacture of wheeled toys designed to be ridden, including plastic bicycles and tricycles); 32403 (Manufacture of pin-tables, coin-operated games, billiards, special tables for casino games, etc.); 32404 (Manufacture of playing cards).
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 3240, 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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