The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For rice milling, that activity is 10612.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
10612 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for rice milling: a sub-class of class 1061, manufacture of grain mill products, within division 10, manufacture of food products. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 10Group 106Class 1061Sub-class 10612
Rice milling
Sub-class 10612 · Class 1061 · Group 106 · Division 10 · Section C, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
106125 digits: 10 + 6 + 1 + 2NIC 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 10612. 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 10 covers manufacture of food products. It sits in section C, manufacturing.
Manufacture of grain mill products, starches and starch products.
Manufacture of grain mill products. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Rice milling. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
10612 is a sub-class of class 1061, manufacture of grain mill products. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of potato flour and meal, see 1030
- - wet corn milling, see 1062
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 10612 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For rice milling, that activity is 10612.
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
10612 is for rice milling. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 1061. Each has its own page with the official wording.
10613Class 1061 · another sub-class of the same class10614Class 1061 · another sub-class of the same class10615Class 1061 · another sub-class of the same class10616Class 1061 · another sub-class of the same class10617Class 1061 · another sub-class of the same classClass 1061 has 9 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 10612. 5 of the others are shown here.
Questions
Rice milling, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 1061, manufacture of grain mill products.
Class 1061, manufacture of grain mill products, has 9 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 10612, those with a page here are: 10613 (Dal (pulses) milling); 10614 (Grain milling other than wheat, rice and dal); 10615 (Vegetable milling (production of flour or meal of dried leguminous vegetables(except dal), of roots or tubers, or of edible nuts)); 10616 (Manufacture of cereal breakfast foods obtained by roasting or swelling cereal grains); 10617 (Manufacture of flour mixes and prepared blended flour and dough for bread, cakes, biscuits).
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 1061, 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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