The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For television programming and broadcasting activities, that activity is 60200.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
60200 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for television programming and broadcasting activities: a sub-class of class 6020, television programming and broadcasting activities, within division 60, programming and broadcasting activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 60Group 602Class 6020Sub-class 60200
Television programming and broadcasting activities
Sub-class 60200 · Class 6020 · Group 602 · Division 60 · 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.
602005 digits: 60 + 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 60200. 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 60 covers programming and broadcasting activities. It sits in section J, information and communication.
Television programming and broadcasting activities.
Television programming and broadcasting activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Television programming and broadcasting activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
60200 is a sub-class of class 6020, television programming and broadcasting activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes creation of a complete television channel programme, from purchased programme components (e.g. movies, documentaries etc.), self produced programme components (e.g. local news, live reports) or a combination thereof. This complete television programme can be either broadcast by the producing unit or produced for transmission by third party distributors, such as cable companies or satellite television providers. The programming may be of a general or specialized nature (e.g. limited formats such as news, sports, education or youth oriented programming), may be made freely available to users or may be available only on a subscription basis.
This class also includes programming of video-on-demand channels, data broadcasting integrated with television broadcasting.
This class excludes:
- - production of television programme elements (e.g. movies, documentaries, commercials), see 5911
- - assembly of a package of channels and distribution of that package via cable or satellite to viewers, see division 61
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 60200 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For television programming and broadcasting activities, that activity is 60200.
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
Television programming and broadcasting activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 6020, television programming and broadcasting 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 6020, 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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