The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For activities of households as employers of domestic personnel, that activity is 97000.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
97000 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for activities of households as employers of domestic personnel: a sub-class of class 9700, activities of households as employers of domestic personnel, within division 97, activities of households as employers of domestic personnel. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 97Group 970Class 9700Sub-class 97000
Activities of households as employers of domestic personnel
Sub-class 97000 · Class 9700 · Group 970 · Division 97 · Section T, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
970005 digits: 97 + 0 + 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 97000. 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 97 covers activities of households as employers of domestic personnel. It sits in section T, activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods and services-producing activities of households for own use.
Activities of households as employers of domestic personnel.
Activities of households as employers of domestic personnel. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Activities of households as employers of domestic personnel. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
97000 is a sub-class of class 9700, activities of households as employers of domestic personnel. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes activities of private households as employers of domestic personnel such as maids, cooks, waiter, valets butlers, laundresses, gardeners, gate-keepers, chauffeurs, care-takers, governesses, babysitters, tutors, secretaries etc. It allows the domestic personnel employed to state the activity of their employer in censuses or studies, even though the employer employer in censuses or studies, even though the employer is an individual. The product produced by this activity is consumed by the employing household.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 97000 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For activities of households as employers of domestic personnel, that activity is 97000.
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 households as employers of domestic personnel, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 9700, activities of households as employers of domestic personnel.
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 9700, 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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