The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For photocopying, duplicating and bluprinting services, that activity is 82191.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
82191 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for photocopying, duplicating and bluprinting services: a sub-class of class 8219, photocopying, document preparation and other specialized office support 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 821Class 8219Sub-class 82191
Photocopying, duplicating and bluprinting services
Sub-class 82191 · Class 8219 · Group 821 · 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.
821915 digits: 82 + 1 + 9 + 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 82191. 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.
Office administrative and support activities.
Photocopying, document preparation and other specialized office support activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Photocopying, duplicating and bluprinting services. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
82191 is a sub-class of class 8219, photocopying, document preparation and other specialized office support activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - printing of documents (offset printing, quick printing etc.), see 1811
- - specialized stenotype services such as court reporting, see 8299
- - public stenography services, see 8299
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 82191 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For photocopying, duplicating and bluprinting services, that activity is 82191.
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
82191 is for photocopying, duplicating and bluprinting services. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 8219. Each has its own page with the official wording.
82192Class 8219 · another sub-class of the same class82199Class 8219 · another sub-class of the same classClass 8219 has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 82191.
Questions
Photocopying, duplicating and bluprinting services, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 8219, photocopying, document preparation and other specialized office support activities.
Class 8219, photocopying, document preparation and other specialized office support activities, has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 82191, they are: 82192 (Document preparation, typing, word processing and desktop publishing sevices); 82199 (Other specialised office support services 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 8219, 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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