The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of optical instruments and equipment, that activity is 26700.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
26700 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of optical instruments and equipment: a sub-class of class 2670, manufacture of optical instruments and 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 267Class 2670Sub-class 26700
Manufacture of optical instruments and equipment
Sub-class 26700 · Class 2670 · Group 267 · 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.
267005 digits: 26 + 7 + 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 26700. 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 optical instruments and equipment.
Manufacture of optical instruments and equipment. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of optical instruments and equipment. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
26700 is a sub-class of class 2670, manufacture of optical instruments and equipment. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes the manufacture of optical instruments and lens(except opthalmic) such binoculars, microscopes, prisms, film and digital cameras etc.
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of computer projectors, see 2620
- - manufacture of commercial TV and video cameras, see 2630
- - manufacture of household-type video cameras, see 2640
- - manufacture of complete equipment using laser components, see manufacturing class by type of machinery (e.g. medical laser equipment, see 2660)
- - manufacture of photocopy machinery, see 2817
- - manufacture of ophthalmic goods, see 3250
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 26700 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of optical instruments and equipment, that activity is 26700.
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 optical instruments and equipment, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 2670, manufacture of optical instruments and 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 2670, 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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