The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For gathering of tendu leaves, that activity is 02301.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
02301 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for gathering of tendu leaves: a sub-class of class 0230, gathering of non-wood forest products, 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 023Class 0230Sub-class 02301
Gathering of tendu leaves
Sub-class 02301 · Class 0230 · Group 023 · 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.
023015 digits: 02 + 3 + 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 02301. 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.
Gathering of non-wood forest products.
Gathering of non-wood forest products. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Gathering of tendu leaves. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
02301 is a sub-class of class 0230, gathering of non-wood forest products. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - managed production of any of these products (except growing of cork trees), see division 01
- - growing of mushrooms or truffles, see 0113
- - growing of berries or nuts, see 0125
- - gathering of fire wood, see 0220
- - production of wood chips, see 1610
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 02301 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For gathering of tendu leaves, that activity is 02301.
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
02301 is for gathering of tendu leaves. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 0230. Each has its own page with the official wording.
02302Class 0230 · another sub-class of the same class02303Class 0230 · another sub-class of the same class02309Class 0230 · another sub-class of the same classClass 0230 has 4 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 02301.
Questions
Gathering of tendu leaves, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 0230, gathering of non-wood forest products.
Class 0230, gathering of non-wood forest products, has 4 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 02301, they are: 02302 (Gathering of lac, resins and rubber-like gums); 02303 (Gathering of wild growing mushrooms, truffles, berries, nuts, cork, balsams, vegetable hair, eelgrass, mosses, lichens); 02309 (Gathering of non-wood forest products, n.e.c.).
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 0230, 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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