The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For event catering, that activity is 56210.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
56210 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for event catering: a sub-class of class 5621, event catering, within division 56, food and beverage service activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 56Group 562Class 5621Sub-class 56210
Event catering
Sub-class 56210 · Class 5621 · Group 562 · Division 56 · Section I, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
562105 digits: 56 + 2 + 1 + 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 56210. 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 56 covers food and beverage service activities. It sits in section I, accommodation and food service activities.
Event catering and other food service activities.
Event catering. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Event catering. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
56210 is a sub-class of class 5621, event catering. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes food services based on contractual arrangements with the customer, at the location specified by the customer, for a specific event
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 56210 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For event catering, that activity is 56210.
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
56210 is for event catering. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: other classes in group 562. Each has its own page with the official wording.
These belong to other classes in group 562, event catering and other food service activities. 56210 itself is in class 5621. Use the search above for any other code on this page.
Questions
Event catering, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 5621, event catering.
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 5621, 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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