The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For renting and leasing of recreational and sports goods, that activity is 77210.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
77210 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for renting and leasing of recreational and sports goods: a sub-class of class 7721, renting and leasing of recreational and sports goods, 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 7721Sub-class 77210
Renting and leasing of recreational and sports goods
Sub-class 77210 · Class 7721 · 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.
772105 digits: 77 + 2 + 1 + 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 77210. 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 recreational and sports goods. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Renting and leasing of recreational and sports goods. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
77210 is a sub-class of class 7721, renting and leasing of recreational and sports goods. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes rental of recreational and sports equipment such as pleasure boats, canoes, sailboats, bicycles and other sports equipments
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 77210 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For renting and leasing of recreational and sports goods, that activity is 77210.
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
77210 is for renting and leasing of recreational and sports goods. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: other classes in group 772. Each has its own page with the official wording.
These belong to other classes in group 772, renting and leasing of personal and household goods. 77210 itself is in class 7721. Use the search above for any other code on this page.
Questions
Renting and leasing of recreational and sports goods, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 7721, renting and leasing of recreational and sports goods.
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 7721, 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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