The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For post production activities of video production, that activity is 59123.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
59123 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for post production activities of video production: a sub-class of class 5912, motion picture, video and television programme post-production activities, within division 59, motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 59Group 591Class 5912Sub-class 59123
Post production activities of video production
Sub-class 59123 · Class 5912 · Group 591 · Division 59 · Section J, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
591235 digits: 59 + 1 + 2 + 3NIC 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 59123. 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 59 covers motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities. It sits in section J, information and communication.
Motion picture, video and television programme activities.
Motion picture, video and television programme post-production activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Post production activities of video production. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
59123 is a sub-class of class 5912, motion picture, video and television programme post-production activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - film duplicating (except reproduction of motion picture film for theatrical distribution) as well as audio and video tape, CD or DVD reproduction from master copies, see 1820
- - wholesale of recorded video tapes, CD-s, DVD-s, see 4649
- - wholesale of blank video tapes, CD-s, see 4652
- - retail trade of video tapes, CD-s, DVD-s, see 4762
- - film processing other than for the motion picture industry, see 7420
- - renting of video tapes, DVD-s to the general public, see 7722
- - activities of own account actors, cartoonists, directors, stage designers and technical specialists, see 90000
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 59123 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For post production activities of video production, that activity is 59123.
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
59123 is for post production activities of video production. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 5912 and other classes in group 591. Each has its own page with the official wording.
59121Class 5912 · another sub-class of the same class59122Class 5912 · another sub-class of the same classClass 5912 has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 59123.
These belong to other classes in group 591, motion picture, video and television programme activities. 59123 itself is in class 5912. Use the search above for any other code on this page.
Questions
Post production activities of video production, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 5912, motion picture, video and television programme post-production activities.
Class 5912, motion picture, video and television programme post-production activities, has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 59123, they are: 59121 (Post production activities of motion picture); 59122 (Post production activities of television programmes or television commercials).
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 5912, 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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