The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For human resources provision and management of human resources functions, that activity is 78300.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
78300 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for human resources provision and management of human resources functions: a sub-class of class 7830, human resources provision and management of human resources functions, within division 78, employment activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 78Group 783Class 7830Sub-class 78300
Human resources provision and management of human resources functions
Sub-class 78300 · Class 7830 · Group 783 · Division 78 · Section N, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
783005 digits: 78 + 3 + 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 78300. 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 78 covers employment activities. It sits in section N, administrative and support service activities.
Human resources provision and management of human resources functions.
Human resources provision and management of human resources functions. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Human resources provision and management of human resources functions. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
78300 is a sub-class of class 7830, human resources provision and management of human resources functions. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes the activities of providing human resources and human resource management services for client businesses. They are specialized in performing a wide range of human resource and personnel management duties. They represent the employer of record for the employees on matters relating to payroll, taxes, and other fiscal and human resource issues, but they are not responsible for direction and supervision of employees.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 78300 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For human resources provision and management of human resources functions, that activity is 78300.
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
Human resources provision and management of human resources functions, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 7830, human resources provision and management of human resources functions.
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 7830, 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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