The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For dental practice activities, that activity is 86202.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
86202 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for dental practice activities: a sub-class of class 8620, medical and dental practice activities, within division 86, human health activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 86Group 862Class 8620Sub-class 86202
Dental practice activities
Sub-class 86202 · Class 8620 · Group 862 · Division 86 · Section Q, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
862025 digits: 86 + 2 + 0 + 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 86202. 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 86 covers human health activities. It sits in section Q, human health and social work activities.
Medical and dental practice activities.
Medical and dental practice activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Dental practice activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
86202 is a sub-class of class 8620, medical and dental practice activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes activities that can be carried out in private practice, group practices and in hospital outpatient clinics, and in clinics such as those attached to firms, schools, homes for the aged, labour organizations and fraternal organizations, as well as in patients’ homes
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 86202 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For dental practice activities, that activity is 86202.
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
86202 is for dental practice activities. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 8620. Each has its own page with the official wording.
Class 8620 has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 86202.
Questions
Dental practice activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 8620, medical and dental practice activities.
Class 8620, medical and dental practice activities, has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 86202, they are: 86201 (Medical practice 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 8620, 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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