The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For activities of trade unions, that activity is 94200.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
94200 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for activities of trade unions: a sub-class of class 9420, activities of trade unions, within division 94, activities of membership organizations. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 94Group 942Class 9420Sub-class 94200
Activities of trade unions
Sub-class 94200 · Class 9420 · Group 942 · Division 94 · Section S, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
942005 digits: 94 + 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 94200. 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 94 covers activities of membership organizations. It sits in section S, other service activities.
Activities of trade unions.
Activities of trade unions. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Activities of trade unions. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
94200 is a sub-class of class 9420, activities of trade unions. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes promoting of the interests of organized labor and union employees, activities of associations whose members are employees interested chiefly in the representation of their views concerning the salary and work situation, and in concerted action through organization
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 94200 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For activities of trade unions, that activity is 94200.
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 trade unions, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 9420, activities of trade unions.
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 9420, 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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