The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For support activities for other mining and quarrying, that activity is 09900.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
09900 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for support activities for other mining and quarrying: a sub-class of class 0990, support activities for other mining and quarrying, within division 09, mining support service activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 09Group 099Class 0990Sub-class 09900
Support activities for other mining and quarrying
Sub-class 09900 · Class 0990 · Group 099 · Division 09 · Section B, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
099005 digits: 09 + 9 + 0 + 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 09900. 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 09 covers mining support service activities. It sits in section B, mining and quarrying.
Support activities for other mining and quarrying.
Support activities for other mining and quarrying. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Support activities for other mining and quarrying. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
09900 is a sub-class of class 0990, support activities for other mining and quarrying. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes support services on a fee or contract basis, required for mining activities of divisions 05, 07 and 08 (exploration services, e.g. traditional prospecting methods, such as taking core samples and making geological observations at prospective sites, draining and pumping services, on a fee or contract basis, test drilling and test hole boring)
This class excludes:
- - operating mines or quarries on a contract or fee basis, see division 05, 07 or 08
- - specialized repair of mining machinery, see 3312
- - geophysical surveying services, on a contract or fee basis, see 7110
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 09900 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For support activities for other mining and quarrying, that activity is 09900.
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.
Questions
Support activities for other mining and quarrying, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 0990, support activities for other mining and quarrying.
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 0990, 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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