The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For packaging activities, that activity is 82920.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
82920 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for packaging activities: a sub-class of class 8292, packaging activities, within division 82, office administrative, office support and other business support activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 82Group 829Class 8292Sub-class 82920
Packaging activities
Sub-class 82920 · Class 8292 · Group 829 · Division 82 · 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.
829205 digits: 82 + 9 + 2 + 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 82920. 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 82 covers office administrative, office support and other business support activities. It sits in section N, administrative and support service activities.
Business support service activities n.e.c.
Packaging activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Packaging activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
82920 is a sub-class of class 8292, packaging activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes packaging activities on a fee or contract basis, whether or not these involve an automated process
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of soft drinks and production of mineral water, see 1104
- - packaging activities incidental to transport, see 5229
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 82920 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For packaging activities, that activity is 82920.
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
82920 is for packaging activities. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: other classes in group 829. Each has its own page with the official wording.
These belong to other classes in group 829, business support service activities n.e.c. 82920 itself is in class 8292. Use the search above for any other code on this page.
Questions
Packaging activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 8292, packaging 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 8292, 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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