The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For this activity, that activity is 43303.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
43303 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for the activity named above: a sub-class of class 4330, building completion and finishing, within division 43, specialized construction activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 43Group 433Class 4330Sub-class 43303
Interior and exterior painting, glazing, plastering and decorating of buildings or civil engineering structures
Sub-class 43303 · Class 4330 · Group 433 · Division 43 · Section F, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
433035 digits: 43 + 3 + 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 43303. 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 43 covers specialized construction activities. It sits in section F, construction.
Building completion and finishing.
Building completion and finishing. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Interior and exterior painting, glazing, plastering and decorating of buildings or civil engineering structures. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
43303 is a sub-class of class 4330, building completion and finishing. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - general interior cleaning of buildings and other structures, see 8121
- - specialized interior and exterior cleaning of buildings, see 8129
- - activities of interior decoration designers, see 7410
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 43303 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For this activity, that activity is 43303.
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
43303 is for the activity named at the top of this page. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 4330. Each has its own page with the official wording.
43309Class 4330 · another sub-class of the same class43301Class 4330 · another sub-class of the same class43302Class 4330 · another sub-class of the same classClass 4330 has 4 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 43303.
Questions
Interior and exterior painting, glazing, plastering and decorating of buildings or civil engineering structures, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 4330, building completion and finishing.
Class 4330, building completion and finishing, has 4 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 43303, they are: 43309 (Other building completion and finishing); 43301 (Installation of doors, windows, door and window frames, fitted kitchens, of wood or other materials); 43302 (Interior completion such as ceilings, wooden wall coverings, movable partitions etc. ; Laying of parquet and other wood floor coverings, carpets and linoleum, wallpaper; tiling with ceramic, concrete or cut stone ceramic etc.).
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 4330, 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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