The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For hunting, trapping and related service activities, that activity is 01700.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
01700 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for hunting, trapping and related service activities: a sub-class of class 0170, hunting, trapping and related service activities, within division 01, crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 01Group 017Class 0170Sub-class 01700
Hunting, trapping and related service activities
Sub-class 01700 · Class 0170 · Group 017 · Division 01 · 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.
017005 digits: 01 + 7 + 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 01700. 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 01 covers crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities. It sits in section A, agriculture, forestry and fishing.
Hunting, trapping and related service activities.
Hunting, trapping and related service activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Hunting, trapping and related service activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
01700 is a sub-class of class 0170, hunting, trapping and related service activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes taking of animals (dead or alive) for food, fur, skin, or for use in research, in zoos or as pets, production of fur skins, reptile or bird skins from hunting or trapping activities
This class excludes:
- - production of fur skins, reptile or bird skins from ranching operations, see group 014
- - raising of game animals on ranching operations, see 0149
- - catching of whales, see 0311
- - production of hides and skins originating from slaughterhouses, see 1010
- - hunting for sport or recreation and related service activities, see 9319
- - service activities to promote hunting and trapping, see 9499
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 01700 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For hunting, trapping and related service activities, that activity is 01700.
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
Hunting, trapping and related service activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 0170, hunting, trapping and related service 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 0170, 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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