The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For hospital activities, that activity is 86100.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
86100 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for hospital activities: a sub-class of class 8610, hospital 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 861Class 8610Sub-class 86100
Hospital activities
Sub-class 86100 · Class 8610 · Group 861 · 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.
861005 digits: 86 + 1 + 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 86100. 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.
Hospital activities.
Hospital activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Hospital activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
86100 is a sub-class of class 8610, hospital activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes the activities of general and specialized hospitals, sanatoria, asylums, rehabilitation centres, dental centres and other health institutions that have accommodation facilities, including military base and prison hospitals
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 86100 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For hospital activities, that activity is 86100.
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
Hospital activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 8610, hospital 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 8610, 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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