The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For this activity, that activity is 02401.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
02401 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for the activity named above: a sub-class of class 0240, support services to forestry, within division 02, forestry and logging. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 02Group 024Class 0240Sub-class 02401
Forestry service activities (forest management consulting services, forestry inventories, timber evaluation, forest pest control)
Sub-class 02401 · Class 0240 · Group 024 · Division 02 · Section A, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
024015 digits: 02 + 4 + 0 + 1NIC 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 02401. 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 02 covers forestry and logging. It sits in section A, agriculture, forestry and fishing.
Support services to forestry.
Support services to forestry. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Forestry service activities (forest management consulting services, forestry inventories, timber evaluation, forest pest control). The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
02401 is a sub-class of class 0240, support services to forestry. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - operation of forest tree nurseries, see 0210
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 02401 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For this activity, that activity is 02401.
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
02401 is for the activity named at the top of this page. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 0240. Each has its own page with the official wording.
Class 0240 has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 02401.
Questions
Forestry service activities (forest management consulting services, forestry inventories, timber evaluation, forest pest control), in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 0240, support services to forestry.
Class 0240, support services to forestry, has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 02401, they are: 02402 (Logging service activities such as transport of logs within the forest).
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 0240, 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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