The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For this activity, that activity is 27201.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
27201 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for the activity named above: a sub-class of class 2720, manufacture of batteries and accumulators, 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 272Class 2720Sub-class 27201
Manufacture of primary cells and primary batteries and rechargeable batteries, cells containing manganese oxide, mercuric oxide silver oxide or other material
Sub-class 27201 · Class 2720 · Group 272 · 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.
272015 digits: 27 + 2 + 0 + 1NIC 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 27201. 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 batteries and accumulators.
Manufacture of batteries and accumulators.
Manufacture of primary cells and primary batteries and rechargeable batteries, cells containing manganese oxide, mercuric oxide silver oxide or other material. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 27201 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For this activity, that activity is 27201.
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
27201 is for the activity named at the top of this page. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 2720. Each has its own page with the official wording.
Class 2720 has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 27201.
Questions
Manufacture of primary cells and primary batteries and rechargeable batteries, cells containing manganese oxide, mercuric oxide silver oxide or other material, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 2720, manufacture of batteries and accumulators.
Class 2720, manufacture of batteries and accumulators, has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 27201, they are: 27202 (Manufacture of electric accumulator incuding parts thereof (separators, containers, covers)).
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 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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