The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For renting of jewellery, musical instruments, scenery and costumes, that activity is 77293.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
77293 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for renting of jewellery, musical instruments, scenery and costumes: a sub-class of class 7729, renting and leasing of other personal and household goods n.e.c., within division 77, rental and leasing activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 77Group 772Class 7729Sub-class 77293
Renting of jewellery, musical instruments, scenery and costumes
Sub-class 77293 · Class 7729 · Group 772 · Division 77 · 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.
772935 digits: 77 + 2 + 9 + 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 77293. 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 77 covers rental and leasing activities. It sits in section N, administrative and support service activities.
Renting and leasing of personal and household goods.
Renting and leasing of other personal and household goods n.e.c.
Renting of jewellery, musical instruments, scenery and costumes. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 77293 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For renting of jewellery, musical instruments, scenery and costumes, that activity is 77293.
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
77293 is for renting of jewellery, musical instruments, scenery and costumes. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 7729. Each has its own page with the official wording.
77294Class 7729 · another sub-class of the same class77299Class 7729 · another sub-class of the same class77291Class 7729 · another sub-class of the same class77292Class 7729 · another sub-class of the same classClass 7729 has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 77293.
Questions
Renting of jewellery, musical instruments, scenery and costumes, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 7729, renting and leasing of other personal and household goods n.e.c.
Class 7729, renting and leasing of other personal and household goods n.e.c., has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 77293, they are: 77294 (Renting of textiles, wearing apparel, footwear, sleeping bag, rucksack, household goods); 77299 (Renting of other personal and household goods n.e.c.); 77291 (Renting of tent, furniture, pottery and glass, kitchen and tableware, utensils, household electrical and electronic equipments etc.); 77292 (Renting of books, journals and magazines).
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 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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