The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of weapons and ammunition, that activity is 25200.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
25200 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of weapons and ammunition: a sub-class of class 2520, manufacture of weapons and ammunition, within division 25, manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 25Group 252Class 2520Sub-class 25200
Manufacture of weapons and ammunition
Sub-class 25200 · Class 2520 · Group 252 · Division 25 · 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.
252005 digits: 25 + 2 + 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 25200. 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 25 covers manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment. It sits in section C, manufacturing.
Manufacture of weapons and ammunition.
Manufacture of weapons and ammunition. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of weapons and ammunition. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
25200 is a sub-class of class 2520, manufacture of weapons and ammunition. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes manufacture of heavy weapons (artillery, mobile guns, rocket launchers, torpedo tubes, heavy machine guns), manufacture of small arms (revolvers, shotguns, light machine guns), manufacture of air or gas guns and pistols, manufacture of war ammunition, manufacture of hunting, sporting or protective firearms and ammunition, manufacture of explosive devices such as bombs, mines and torpedoes
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of percussion caps, detonators or signalling flares, see 2029
- - manufacture of cutlasses, swords, bayonets etc., see 2593
- - manufacture of armoured vehicles for the transport of banknotes or valuables, see 2910
- - manufacture of space vehicles, see 3030
- - manufacture of tanks and other fighting vehicles, see 3040
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 25200 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of weapons and ammunition, that activity is 25200.
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 weapons and ammunition, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 2520, manufacture of weapons and ammunition.
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 2520, 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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