The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For retail sale of musical instruments, that activity is 47595.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
47595 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for retail sale of musical instruments: a sub-class of class 4759, retail sale of electrical household appliances, furniture, lighting equipment and other household articles in specialized stores, within division 47, retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 47Group 475Class 4759Sub-class 47595
Retail sale of musical instruments
Sub-class 47595 · Class 4759 · Group 475 · Division 47 · Section G, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
475955 digits: 47 + 5 + 9 + 5NIC 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 47595. 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 47 covers retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles. It sits in section G, wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles.
Retail sale of other household equipment in specialized stores.
Retail sale of electrical household appliances, furniture, lighting equipment and other household articles in specialized stores. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Retail sale of musical instruments. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
47595 is a sub-class of class 4759, retail sale of electrical household appliances, furniture, lighting equipment and other household articles in specialized stores. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - retail sale of antiques, see 4774
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 47595 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For retail sale of musical instruments, that activity is 47595.
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
47595 is for retail sale of musical instruments. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 4759. Each has its own page with the official wording.
47599Class 4759 · another sub-class of the same class47591Class 4759 · another sub-class of the same class47592Class 4759 · another sub-class of the same class47593Class 4759 · another sub-class of the same class47594Class 4759 · another sub-class of the same classClass 4759 has 6 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 47595.
Questions
Retail sale of musical instruments, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 4759, retail sale of electrical household appliances, furniture, lighting equipment and other household articles in specialized stores.
Class 4759, retail sale of electrical household appliances, furniture, lighting equipment and other household articles in specialized stores, has 6 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 47595, they are: 47599 (Retail sale of other household appliances n.e.c. ( security systems, such as locking devices, safes, and vaults, without installation or maintenance services etc. , wooden, cork and wickerwork goods, sewing and knitting machine and other household utensils and durables n.e.c.)); 47591 (Retail sale of household furniture); 47592 (Retail sale of household utensils and cutlery, crockery, glassware, china and pottery); 47593 (Retail sale of gas stoves, cooking/kitchen appliances); 47594 (Retail sale of refrigerators, washing machines and other electrical/electronic household 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 4759, 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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