The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For other telecommunications activities, that activity is 61900.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
61900 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for other telecommunications activities: a sub-class of class 6190, other telecommunications activities, within division 61, telecommunications. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 61Group 619Class 6190Sub-class 61900
Other telecommunications activities
Sub-class 61900 · Class 6190 · Group 619 · Division 61 · Section J, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
619005 digits: 61 + 9 + 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 61900. 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 61 covers telecommunications. It sits in section J, information and communication.
Other telecommunications activities.
Other telecommunications activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Other telecommunications activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
61900 is a sub-class of class 6190, other telecommunications activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes specialized telecommunications applications, such as satellite tracking, communications telemetry, and radar station operations, operation of satellite terminal station, internet access over networks such as dial-up internet access etc.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 61900 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For other telecommunications activities, that activity is 61900.
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
Other telecommunications activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 6190, other telecommunications activities.
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 6190, 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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