The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For Regulatory agencies relating to health, that activity is 84121.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
84121 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for Regulatory agencies relating to health: a sub-class of class 8412, regulation of the activities of providing health care, education, cultural services and other social services, excluding social security, 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 841Class 8412Sub-class 84121
Regulatory agencies relating to health
Sub-class 84121 · Class 8412 · Group 841 · 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.
841215 digits: 84 + 1 + 2 + 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 84121. 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.
Administration of the State and the economic and social policy of the community.
Regulation of the activities of providing health care, education, cultural services and other social services, excluding social security. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Regulatory agencies relating to health. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
84121 is a sub-class of class 8412, regulation of the activities of providing health care, education, cultural services and other social services, excluding social security. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - sewage, refuse disposal and remediation activities, see divisions 37, 38,
- - compulsory social security activities, see 8430
- - education activities, see division 85
- - human health-related activities, see division 86
- - activities of libraries and public archives, see 9101
- - operation of museums and other cultural institutions, see 9102
- - sporting or other recreational activities, see division 93
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 84121 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For Regulatory agencies relating to health, that activity is 84121.
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
84121 is for Regulatory agencies relating to health. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 8412. Each has its own page with the official wording.
84122Class 8412 · another sub-class of the same class84129Class 8412 · another sub-class of the same classClass 8412 has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 84121.
Questions
Regulatory agencies relating to health, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 8412, regulation of the activities of providing health care, education, cultural services and other social services, excluding social security.
Class 8412, regulation of the activities of providing health care, education, cultural services and other social services, excluding social security, has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 84121, they are: 84122 (Regulatory agencies relating to education); 84129 (Regulatory agencies relating to other social services n.e.c. excluding social security).
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 8412, 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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