The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For activities of sound recording in studio or elsewhere, that activity is 59201.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
59201 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for activities of sound recording in studio or elsewhere: a sub-class of class 5920, sound recording and music publishing activitiest, within division 59, motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 59Group 592Class 5920Sub-class 59201
Activities of sound recording in studio or elsewhere
Sub-class 59201 · Class 5920 · Group 592 · Division 59 · 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.
592015 digits: 59 + 2 + 0 + 1NIC 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 59201. 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 59 covers motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities. It sits in section J, information and communication.
Sound recording and music publishing activities.
Sound recording and music publishing activitiest. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Activities of sound recording in studio or elsewhere. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
59201 is a sub-class of class 5920, sound recording and music publishing activitiest. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This includes the activities of production of original (sound) master recordings, such as tapes, CD-s.
This class also includes the activities of music publishing
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 59201 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For activities of sound recording in studio or elsewhere, that activity is 59201.
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
59201 is for activities of sound recording in studio or elsewhere. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 5920. Each has its own page with the official wording.
Class 5920 has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 59201.
Questions
Activities of sound recording in studio or elsewhere, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 5920, sound recording and music publishing activitiest.
Class 5920, sound recording and music publishing activitiest, has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 59201, they are: 59202 (Activities of misic publishing).
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 5920, 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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