The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For repair of communication equipment, that activity is 95120.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
95120 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for repair of communication equipment: a sub-class of class 9512, repair of communication equipment, within division 95, repair of computers and personal and household goods. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 95Group 951Class 9512Sub-class 95120
Repair of communication equipment
Sub-class 95120 · Class 9512 · Group 951 · Division 95 · Section S, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
951205 digits: 95 + 1 + 2 + 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 95120. 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 95 covers repair of computers and personal and household goods. It sits in section S, other service activities.
Repair of computers and communication equipment.
Repair of communication equipment. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Repair of communication equipment. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
95120 is a sub-class of class 9512, repair of communication equipment. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes repair and maintenance of cordless telephones, cellular phones, fax machines, commercial TV and video cameras etc.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 95120 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For repair of communication equipment, that activity is 95120.
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
95120 is for repair of communication equipment. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: other classes in group 951. Each has its own page with the official wording.
These belong to other classes in group 951, repair of computers and communication equipment. 95120 itself is in class 9512. Use the search above for any other code on this page.
Questions
Repair of communication equipment, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 9512, repair of communication 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 9512, 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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