The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For activities of holding companies, that activity is 64200.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
64200 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for activities of holding companies: a sub-class of class 6420, activities of holding companies, within division 64, financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 64Group 642Class 6420Sub-class 64200
Activities of holding companies
Sub-class 64200 · Class 6420 · Group 642 · Division 64 · Section K, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
642005 digits: 64 + 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 64200. 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 64 covers financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding. It sits in section K, financial and insurance activities.
Activities of holding companies.
Activities of holding companies. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Activities of holding companies. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
64200 is a sub-class of class 6420, activities of holding companies. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes the activities of holding companies, i.e. units that hold the assets (owning controlling-levels of equity) of a group of subsidiary corporations and whose principal activity is owning the group. The holding companies in this class do not provide any other service to the businesses in which the equity is held, i.e. they do not administer or manage other units.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 64200 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For activities of holding companies, that activity is 64200.
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
Activities of holding companies, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 6420, activities of holding companies.
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 6420, 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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