The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of stringed instruments (non-electronic), that activity is 32201.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
32201 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of stringed instruments (non-electronic): a sub-class of class 3220, manufacture of musical instruments, 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 322Class 3220Sub-class 32201
Manufacture of stringed instruments (non-electronic)
Sub-class 32201 · Class 3220 · Group 322 · 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.
322015 digits: 32 + 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 32201. 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 musical instruments.
Manufacture of musical instruments. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of stringed instruments (non-electronic). The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
32201 is a sub-class of class 3220, manufacture of musical instruments. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - reproduction of pre-recorded sound and video tapes and discs, see 1820
- - manufacture of microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, headphones and similar components, see 2640
- - manufacture of record players, tape recorders and the like, see 2640
- - manufacture of toy musical instruments, see 3240
- - restoring of organs and other historic musical instruments, see 3319
- - publishing of pre-recorded sound and video tapes and discs, see 5920
- - piano tuning, see 9529
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 32201 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of stringed instruments (non-electronic), that activity is 32201.
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
32201 is for manufacture of stringed instruments (non-electronic). The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 3220. Each has its own page with the official wording.
32202Class 3220 · another sub-class of the same class32203Class 3220 · another sub-class of the same class32204Class 3220 · another sub-class of the same class32209Class 3220 · another sub-class of the same classClass 3220 has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 32201.
Questions
Manufacture of stringed instruments (non-electronic), in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 3220, manufacture of musical instruments.
Class 3220, manufacture of musical instruments, has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 32201, they are: 32202 (Manufacture of wind instruments, accordions, harmonium and similar instruments and mouth organs); 32203 (Manufacture of percussion musical instruments); 32204 (Manufacture of musical instruments, the sound of which is produced electronically); 32209 (Manufacture of other musical instruments n.e.c.).
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 3220, 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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