The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For activities of homeopaths, that activity is 86903.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
86903 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for activities of homeopaths: a sub-class of class 8690, other human health activities, within division 86, human health activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 86Group 869Class 8690Sub-class 86903
Activities of homeopaths
Sub-class 86903 · Class 8690 · Group 869 · Division 86 · Section Q, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
869035 digits: 86 + 9 + 0 + 3NIC 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 86903. 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 86 covers human health activities. It sits in section Q, human health and social work activities.
Other human health activities.
Other human health activities.
Activities of homeopaths. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 86903 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For activities of homeopaths, that activity is 86903.
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
86903 is for activities of homeopaths. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 8690. Each has its own page with the official wording.
86904Class 8690 · another sub-class of the same class86905Class 8690 · another sub-class of the same class86906Class 8690 · another sub-class of the same class86909Class 8690 · another sub-class of the same class86901Class 8690 · another sub-class of the same classClass 8690 has 7 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 86903. 5 of the others are shown here.
Questions
Activities of homeopaths, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 8690, other human health activities.
Class 8690, other human health activities, has 7 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 86903, those with a page here are: 86904 (Activities of nurses, masseures, physiotherapists or other para-medical practitioners); 86905 (Activities of independent diagnostic/pathological laboratories); 86906 (Activities of independent blood banks); 86909 (Other human health activities n.e.c. (including independent ambulance activities)); 86901 (Activities of Ayurveda practitioners).
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 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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