The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For landscape care and maintenance service activities, that activity is 81300.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
81300 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for landscape care and maintenance service activities: a sub-class of class 8130, landscape care and maintenance service activities, within division 81, services to buildings and landscape activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 81Group 813Class 8130Sub-class 81300
Landscape care and maintenance service activities
Sub-class 81300 · Class 8130 · Group 813 · Division 81 · 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.
813005 digits: 81 + 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 81300. 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 81 covers services to buildings and landscape activities. It sits in section N, administrative and support service activities.
Landscape care and maintenance service activities.
Landscape care and maintenance service activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Landscape care and maintenance service activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
81300 is a sub-class of class 8130, landscape care and maintenance service activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes planting, care and maintenance of parks, gardens and greenery
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 81300 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For landscape care and maintenance service activities, that activity is 81300.
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
Landscape care and maintenance service activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 8130, landscape care and maintenance 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 8130, 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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