The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of continuous-action elevators and conveyors for underground use, that activity is 28241.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
28241 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of continuous-action elevators and conveyors for underground use: a sub-class of class 2824, manufacture of machinery for mining, quarrying and construction, within division 28, manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 28Group 282Class 2824Sub-class 28241
Manufacture of continuous-action elevators and conveyors for underground use
Sub-class 28241 · Class 2824 · Group 282 · Division 28 · Section C, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
282415 digits: 28 + 2 + 4 + 1NIC 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 28241. 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 28 covers manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. It sits in section C, manufacturing.
Manufacture of special-purpose machinery.
Manufacture of machinery for mining, quarrying and construction. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of continuous-action elevators and conveyors for underground use. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
28241 is a sub-class of class 2824, manufacture of machinery for mining, quarrying and construction. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of lifting and handling equipment, see 2816
- - manufacture of other tractors, see 2821, 2910
- - manufacture of machine tools for working stone, including machines for splitting or clearing stone, see 2822
- - manufacture of concrete-mixer lorries, see 2910
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 28241 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of continuous-action elevators and conveyors for underground use, that activity is 28241.
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
28241 is for manufacture of continuous-action elevators and conveyors for underground use. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 2824. Each has its own page with the official wording.
28242Class 2824 · another sub-class of the same class28243Class 2824 · another sub-class of the same class28244Class 2824 · another sub-class of the same class28245Class 2824 · another sub-class of the same class28246Class 2824 · another sub-class of the same classClass 2824 has 7 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 28241. 5 of the others are shown here.
Questions
Manufacture of continuous-action elevators and conveyors for underground use, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 2824, manufacture of machinery for mining, quarrying and construction.
Class 2824, manufacture of machinery for mining, quarrying and construction, has 7 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 28241, those with a page here are: 28242 (Manufacture of boring, cutting, sinking and tunnelling machinery (whether or not for underground use)); 28243 (Manufacture of earth-moving machinery (bulldozers, angle-dozers, graders, scrapers, levellers, mechanical shovels, shovel loaders, off-road dumping trucks etc.)); 28244 (Manufacture of tracklaying tractors and tractors used in construction or mining); 28245 (Manufacture of concrete and mortar mixers, piledrivers and pile-extractors, mortar spreaders, bitumen spreaders, concrete surfacing machinery); 28246 (Manufacture of parts and accessories for machinery/equipment used by construction and mining industries).
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 2824, 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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