The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For compulsory social security activities, that activity is 84300.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
84300 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for compulsory social security activities: a sub-class of class 8430, compulsory social security activities, within division 84, public administration and defence; compulsory social security. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 84Group 843Class 8430Sub-class 84300
Compulsory social security activities
Sub-class 84300 · Class 8430 · Group 843 · Division 84 · Section O, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
843005 digits: 84 + 3 + 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 84300. 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 84 covers public administration and defence; compulsory social security. It sits in section O, public administration and defence; compulsory social security.
Compulsory social security activities.
Compulsory social security activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Compulsory social security activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
84300 is a sub-class of class 8430, compulsory social security activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes funding and administration of government-provided social security programmes
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 84300 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For compulsory social security activities, that activity is 84300.
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
Compulsory social security activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 8430, compulsory social security activities.
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 8430, 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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