The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of orthopedic and prosthetic devices, that activity is 32506.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
32506 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of orthopedic and prosthetic devices: a sub-class of class 3250, manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies, 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 325Class 3250Sub-class 32506
Manufacture of orthopedic and prosthetic devices
Sub-class 32506 · Class 3250 · Group 325 · 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.
325065 digits: 32 + 5 + 0 + 6NIC 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 32506. 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 medical and dental instruments and supplies.
Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of orthopedic and prosthetic devices. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
32506 is a sub-class of class 3250, manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of wheelchairs, see 3092
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 32506 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of orthopedic and prosthetic devices, that activity is 32506.
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
32506 is for manufacture of orthopedic and prosthetic devices. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 3250. Each has its own page with the official wording.
32507Class 3250 · another sub-class of the same class32509Class 3250 · another sub-class of the same class32501Class 3250 · another sub-class of the same class32502Class 3250 · another sub-class of the same class32503Class 3250 · another sub-class of the same classClass 3250 has 8 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 32506. 5 of the others are shown here.
Questions
Manufacture of orthopedic and prosthetic devices, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 3250, manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies.
Class 3250, manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies, has 8 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 32506, those with a page here are: 32507 (Manufacture of ophthalmic goods, eyeglasses, sunglasses, lenses ground to prescription, contact lenses, safety goggles etc.); 32509 (Manufacture of other medical and dental instruments n.e.c.); 32501 (Manufacture of dental fillings and cements (except denture adhesive or cement), dental wax and other dental plaster preparations; manufacture of dental laboratory furnaces, dental instruments, artificial teeth, bridges, etc., made in dental labs); 32502 (Manufacture of laboratory apparatus (laboratory ultrasonic cleaning machinery, laboratory sterilizers, laboratory type distilling apparatus, laboratory centrifuges etc.)); 32503 (Manufacture of medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture such as operating tables, examination tables, dentists’ chairs etc.).
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 3250, 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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