The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For other photographic activities, that activity is 74209.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
74209 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for other photographic activities: a sub-class of class 7420, photographic activities, within division 74, other professional, scientific and technical activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 74Group 742Class 7420Sub-class 74209
Other photographic activities
Sub-class 74209 · Class 7420 · Group 742 · Division 74 · Section M, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
742095 digits: 74 + 2 + 0 + 9NIC 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 74209. 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 74 covers other professional, scientific and technical activities. It sits in section M, professional, scientific and technical activities.
Photographic activities.
Photographic activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Other photographic activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
74209 is a sub-class of class 7420, photographic activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - processing motion picture film related to the motion picture and television industries, see 5911
- - cartographic and spatial information activities, see 7110
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 74209 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For other photographic activities, that activity is 74209.
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
74209 is for other photographic activities. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 7420. Each has its own page with the official wording.
74201Class 7420 · another sub-class of the same class74202Class 7420 · another sub-class of the same class74203Class 7420 · another sub-class of the same classClass 7420 has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 74209. 3 of the others are shown here.
Questions
Other photographic activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 7420, photographic activities.
Class 7420, photographic activities, has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 74209, those with a page here are: 74201 (Commercial and consumer photograph production); 74202 (Photographic film processing); 74203 (Activities of photojournalists).
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 7420, 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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