The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For news agency activities, that activity is 63910.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
63910 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for news agency activities: a sub-class of class 6391, news agency activities, within division 63, information service activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 63Group 639Class 6391Sub-class 63910
News agency activities
Sub-class 63910 · Class 6391 · Group 639 · Division 63 · Section J, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
639105 digits: 63 + 9 + 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 63910. 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 63 covers information service activities. It sits in section J, information and communication.
Other information service activities.
News agency activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
News agency activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
63910 is a sub-class of class 6391, news agency activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes news syndicate and news agency activities furnishing news, pictures and features to the media
This class excludes:
- - activities of independent photojournalists, see 7420
- - activities of independent journalists, see 9000
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 63910 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For news agency activities, that activity is 63910.
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
63910 is for news agency activities. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: other classes in group 639. Each has its own page with the official wording.
These belong to other classes in group 639, other information service activities. 63910 itself is in class 6391. Use the search above for any other code on this page.
Questions
News agency activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 6391, news agency 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 6391, 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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