The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For Hairdressing and other beauty treatment, that activity is 96020.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
96020 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for Hairdressing and other beauty treatment: a sub-class of class 9602, Hairdressing and other beauty treatment, within division 96, other personal service activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 96Group 960Class 9602Sub-class 96020
Hairdressing and other beauty treatment
Sub-class 96020 · Class 9602 · Group 960 · Division 96 · 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.
960205 digits: 96 + 0 + 2 + 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 96020. 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 96 covers other personal service activities. It sits in section S, other service activities.
Other personal service activities.
Hairdressing and other beauty treatment. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Hairdressing and other beauty treatment. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
96020 is a sub-class of class 9602, Hairdressing and other beauty treatment. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes hair washing, trimming and cutting, setting, dyeing, tinting, waving, straightening and similar activities for men and women, shaving and beard trimming, facial massage, manicure and pedicure, make- up etc.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 96020 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For Hairdressing and other beauty treatment, that activity is 96020.
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
96020 is for Hairdressing and other beauty treatment. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: other classes in group 960. Each has its own page with the official wording.
These belong to other classes in group 960, other personal service activities. 96020 itself is in class 9602. Use the search above for any other code on this page.
Questions
Hairdressing and other beauty treatment, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 9602, Hairdressing and other beauty treatment.
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 9602, 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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