The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For social activities such as escort services, marriage bureaus, that activity is 96091.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
96091 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for social activities such as escort services, marriage bureaus: a sub-class of class 9609, other personal service activities n.e.c., within division 96, other personal service activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 96Group 960Class 9609Sub-class 96091
Social activities such as escort services, marriage bureaus
Sub-class 96091 · Class 9609 · Group 960 · Division 96 · Section S, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
960915 digits: 96 + 0 + 9 + 1NIC 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 96091. 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 96 covers other personal service activities. It sits in section S, other service activities.
Other personal service activities.
Other personal service activities n.e.c.
Social activities such as escort services, marriage bureaus. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 96091 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For social activities such as escort services, marriage bureaus, that activity is 96091.
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
96091 is for social activities such as escort services, marriage bureaus. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 9609. Each has its own page with the official wording.
96092Class 9609 · another sub-class of the same class96903Class 9609 · another sub-class of the same class96904Class 9609 · another sub-class of the same class96905Class 9609 · another sub-class of the same class96906Class 9609 · another sub-class of the same classClass 9609 has 8 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 96091. 5 of the others are shown here.
Questions
Social activities such as escort services, marriage bureaus, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 9609, other personal service activities n.e.c.
Class 9609, other personal service activities n.e.c., has 8 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 96091, those with a page here are: 96092 (Pet care services such as boarding, grooming and training pets etc.); 96903 (Shoe shiners, porters, valet car parkers etc.); 96904 (Coin-operated personal service machines such as photo booths, weighing machines, blood pressure checking machines etc.); 96905 (Activities of sauna and steam baths, massage salons etc.); 96906 (Astrological and spiritualists’ activities).
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 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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