The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For cleaning of industrial machinery, that activity is 81292.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
81292 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for cleaning of industrial machinery: a sub-class of class 8129, other building and industrial cleaning activities, within division 81, services to buildings and landscape activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 81Group 812Class 8129Sub-class 81292
Cleaning of industrial machinery
Sub-class 81292 · Class 8129 · Group 812 · Division 81 · Section N, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
812925 digits: 81 + 2 + 9 + 2NIC 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 81292. 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 81 covers services to buildings and landscape activities. It sits in section N, administrative and support service activities.
Cleaning activities.
Other building and industrial cleaning activities.
Cleaning of industrial machinery. 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 81292 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For cleaning of industrial machinery, that activity is 81292.
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
81292 is for cleaning of industrial machinery. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 8129. Each has its own page with the official wording.
81299Class 8129 · another sub-class of the same class81291Class 8129 · another sub-class of the same classClass 8129 has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 81292.
Questions
Cleaning of industrial machinery, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 8129, other building and industrial cleaning activities.
Class 8129, other building and industrial cleaning activities, has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 81292, they are: 81299 (Other building and industrial cleaning activities); 81291 (Cleaning of trains buses, planes etc.).
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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