The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of magnetic and optical media, that activity is 26800.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
26800 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of magnetic and optical media: a sub-class of class 2680, manufacture of magnetic and optical media, 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 268Class 2680Sub-class 26800
Manufacture of magnetic and optical media
Sub-class 26800 · Class 2680 · Group 268 · 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.
268005 digits: 26 + 8 + 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 26800. 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 magnetic and optical media.
Manufacture of magnetic and optical media. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of magnetic and optical media. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
26800 is a sub-class of class 2680, manufacture of magnetic and optical media. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes manufacture of blank magnetic audio and video tapes and cassettes and blank optical discs
This class excludes:
- - reproduction of recorded media (computer media, sound, video, etc.), see 1820
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 26800 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of magnetic and optical media, that activity is 26800.
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 magnetic and optical media, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 2680, manufacture of magnetic and optical media.
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 2680, 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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