The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For passenger rail transport, that activity is 49110.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
49110 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for passenger rail transport: a sub-class of class 4911, passenger rail transport, within division 49, land transport and transport via pipelines. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 49Group 491Class 4911Sub-class 49110
Passenger rail transport
Sub-class 49110 · Class 4911 · Group 491 · Division 49 · Section H, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
491105 digits: 49 + 1 + 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 49110. 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 49 covers land transport and transport via pipelines. It sits in section H, transport and storage.
Transport via railways.
Passenger rail transport. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Passenger rail transport. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
49110 is a sub-class of class 4911, passenger rail transport. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes passenger transport by inter-urban railways, operation of sleeping cars or dining cars as an integrated operation of railway companies
This class excludes:
- - passenger transport by urban and suburban transit systems, see 4921
- - passenger terminal activities, see 5221
- - operation of sleeping cars or dining cars when operated by separate units, see 5590, 5610
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 49110 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For passenger rail transport, that activity is 49110.
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
49110 is for passenger rail transport. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: other classes in group 491. Each has its own page with the official wording.
These belong to other classes in group 491, transport via railways. 49110 itself is in class 4911. Use the search above for any other code on this page.
Questions
Passenger rail transport, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 4911, passenger rail transport.
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 4911, 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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