The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For temporary employment agency activities, that activity is 78200.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
78200 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for temporary employment agency activities: a sub-class of class 7820, temporary employment agency activities, within division 78, employment activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 78Group 782Class 7820Sub-class 78200
Temporary employment agency activities
Sub-class 78200 · Class 7820 · Group 782 · Division 78 · Section N, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
782005 digits: 78 + 2 + 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 78200. 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 78 covers employment activities. It sits in section N, administrative and support service activities.
Temporary employment agency activities.
Temporary employment agency activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Temporary employment agency activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
78200 is a sub-class of class 7820, temporary employment agency activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes activities of supplying workers to clients’ businesses for limited periods of time to supplement the working force of the client, where the individuals provided are employees of the temporary help service unit. However, units classified here do not provide direct supervision of their employees at the clients’ work sites.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 78200 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For temporary employment agency activities, that activity is 78200.
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
Temporary employment agency activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 7820, temporary employment agency 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, and the explanatory note for class 7820, 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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