The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For ice cream mobile vendors, mobile food carts, that activity is 56103.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
56103 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for ice cream mobile vendors, mobile food carts: a sub-class of class 5610, restaurants and mobile food service activities, within division 56, food and beverage service activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 56Group 561Class 5610Sub-class 56103
Ice cream mobile vendors, mobile food carts
Sub-class 56103 · Class 5610 · Group 561 · Division 56 · Section I, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
561035 digits: 56 + 1 + 0 + 3NIC 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 56103. 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 56 covers food and beverage service activities. It sits in section I, accommodation and food service activities.
Restaurants and mobile food service activities.
Restaurants and mobile food service activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Ice cream mobile vendors, mobile food carts. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
56103 is a sub-class of class 5610, restaurants and mobile food service activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - concession operation of eating facilities, see 5629
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 56103 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For ice cream mobile vendors, mobile food carts, that activity is 56103.
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
56103 is for ice cream mobile vendors, mobile food carts. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 5610. Each has its own page with the official wording.
56104Class 5610 · another sub-class of the same class56101Class 5610 · another sub-class of the same class56102Class 5610 · another sub-class of the same classClass 5610 has 4 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 56103.
Questions
Ice cream mobile vendors, mobile food carts, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 5610, restaurants and mobile food service activities.
Class 5610, restaurants and mobile food service activities, has 4 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 56103, they are: 56104 (Restaurant and bar activities connected to transportation, when carried out by separate units); 56101 (Restaurants without bars); 56102 (Cafeterias, fast-food restaurants and other food preparation in market stalls).
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 5610, 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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