The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For other retail sale in non-specialized stores, that activity is 47190.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
47190 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for other retail sale in non-specialized stores: a sub-class of class 4719, other retail sale in non-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 471Class 4719Sub-class 47190
Other retail sale in non-specialized stores
Sub-class 47190 · Class 4719 · Group 471 · 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.
471905 digits: 47 + 1 + 9 + 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 47190. 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 in non-specialized stores.
Other retail sale in non-specialized stores. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Other retail sale in non-specialized stores. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
47190 is a sub-class of class 4719, other retail sale in non-specialized stores. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes retail sale of a large variety of goods of which food products, beverages or tobacco are not predominant, such as retail sale activities of department stores carrying a general line of merchandise, including wearing apparel, furniture, appliances, hardware, cosmetics, jewellery, toys, sports goods etc.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 47190 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For other retail sale in non-specialized stores, that activity is 47190.
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
47190 is for other retail sale in non-specialized stores. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: other classes in group 471. Each has its own page with the official wording.
These belong to other classes in group 471, retail sale in non-specialized stores. 47190 itself is in class 4719. Use the search above for any other code on this page.
Questions
Other retail sale in non-specialized stores, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 4719, other retail sale in non-specialized stores.
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 4719, 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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