The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For risk and damage evaluation, that activity is 66210.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
66210 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for risk and damage evaluation: a sub-class of class 6621, risk and damage evaluation, within division 66, other financial activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 66Group 662Class 6621Sub-class 66210
Risk and damage evaluation
Sub-class 66210 · Class 6621 · Group 662 · Division 66 · Section K, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
662105 digits: 66 + 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 66210. 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 66 covers other financial activities. It sits in section K, financial and insurance activities.
Activities auxiliary to insurance and pension funding.
Risk and damage evaluation. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Risk and damage evaluation. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
66210 is a sub-class of class 6621, risk and damage evaluation. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This includes the provision of administration services of insurance, such as assessing and settling insurance claims
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 66210 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For risk and damage evaluation, that activity is 66210.
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
66210 is for risk and damage evaluation. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: other classes in group 662. Each has its own page with the official wording.
These belong to other classes in group 662, activities auxiliary to insurance and pension funding. 66210 itself is in class 6621. Use the search above for any other code on this page.
Questions
Risk and damage evaluation, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 6621, risk and damage evaluation.
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 6621, 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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