The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For nursing care facilities, that activity is 87100.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
87100 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for nursing care facilities: a sub-class of class 8710, nursing care facilities, within division 87, residential care activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 87Group 871Class 8710Sub-class 87100
Nursing care facilities
Sub-class 87100 · Class 8710 · Group 871 · Division 87 · Section Q, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
871005 digits: 87 + 1 + 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 87100. 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 87 covers residential care activities. It sits in section Q, human health and social work activities.
Nursing care facilities.
Nursing care facilities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Nursing care facilities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
87100 is a sub-class of class 8710, nursing care facilities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes homes for the elderly with nursing care, convalescent homes, rest homes with nursing care, nursing care facilities
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 87100 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For nursing care facilities, that activity is 87100.
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
Nursing care facilities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 8710, nursing care facilities.
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 8710, 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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