The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For Library and archives activities, that activity is 91010.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
91010 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for Library and archives activities: a sub-class of class 9101, Library and archives activities, within division 91, libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 91Group 910Class 9101Sub-class 91010
Library and archives activities
Sub-class 91010 · Class 9101 · Group 910 · Division 91 · Section R, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
910105 digits: 91 + 0 + 1 + 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 91010. 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 91 covers libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities. It sits in section R, arts, entertainment and recreation.
Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities.
Library and archives activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Library and archives activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
91010 is a sub-class of class 9101, Library and archives activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes documentation and information activities of libraries of all kinds, reading, listening and viewing rooms, public archives providing service to the general public or to a special clientele, such as students, scientists, staff, members as well as operation of government archive
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 91010 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For Library and archives activities, that activity is 91010.
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
91010 is for Library and archives activities. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: other classes in group 910. Each has its own page with the official wording.
These belong to other classes in group 910, libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities. 91010 itself is in class 9101. Use the search above for any other code on this page.
Questions
Library and archives activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 9101, Library and archives 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 9101, 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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