The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For public order and safety activities, that activity is 84230.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
84230 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for public order and safety activities: a sub-class of class 8423, public order and safety activities, within division 84, public administration and defence; compulsory social security. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 84Group 842Class 8423Sub-class 84230
Public order and safety activities
Sub-class 84230 · Class 8423 · Group 842 · Division 84 · Section O, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
842305 digits: 84 + 2 + 3 + 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 84230. 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 84 covers public administration and defence; compulsory social security. It sits in section O, public administration and defence; compulsory social security.
Provision of services to the community as a whole.
Public order and safety activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Public order and safety activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
84230 is a sub-class of class 8423, public order and safety activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes administration and operation of regular and auxiliary police forces; firefighting and fire prevention; administration and operation of administrative civil and criminal law courts, military tribunals and the judicial system, including legal representation and advice on behalf of the government or when provided by the government; prison administration and provision of correctional services, including rehabilitation services; provision of supplies for domestic emergency use in case of peacetime disasters
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 84230 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For public order and safety activities, that activity is 84230.
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
84230 is for public order and safety activities. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: other classes in group 842. Each has its own page with the official wording.
These belong to other classes in group 842, provision of services to the community as a whole. 84230 itself is in class 8423. Use the search above for any other code on this page.
Questions
Public order and safety activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 8423, public order and safety 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 8423, 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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