The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For tea/coffee shops, that activity is 56302.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
56302 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for tea/coffee shops: a sub-class of class 5630, beverage serving activities, within division 56, food and beverage service activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 56Group 563Class 5630Sub-class 56302
Tea/coffee shops
Sub-class 56302 · Class 5630 · Group 563 · Division 56 · Section I, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
563025 digits: 56 + 3 + 0 + 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 56302. 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 56 covers food and beverage service activities. It sits in section I, accommodation and food service activities.
Beverage serving activities.
Beverage serving activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Tea/coffee shops. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
56302 is a sub-class of class 5630, beverage serving activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - reselling packaged/prepared beverages, see 4711, 4722, 4781, 4799
- - operation of discotheques and dance floors without beverage serving, see 9329
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 56302 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For tea/coffee shops, that activity is 56302.
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
56302 is for tea/coffee shops. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 5630. Each has its own page with the official wording.
56303Class 5630 · another sub-class of the same class56304Class 5630 · another sub-class of the same class56301Class 5630 · another sub-class of the same classClass 5630 has 4 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 56302.
Questions
Tea/coffee shops, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 5630, beverage serving activities.
Class 5630, beverage serving activities, has 4 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 56302, they are: 56303 (Fruit juice bars); 56304 (Mobile beverage vendors); 56301 (Bars and Restaurants with bars).
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 5630, 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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