The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For transport via pipeline, that activity is 49300.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
49300 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for transport via pipeline: a sub-class of class 4930, transport via pipeline, within division 49, land transport and transport via pipelines. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 49Group 493Class 4930Sub-class 49300
Transport via pipeline
Sub-class 49300 · Class 4930 · Group 493 · Division 49 · Section H, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
493005 digits: 49 + 3 + 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 49300. 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 49 covers land transport and transport via pipelines. It sits in section H, transport and storage.
Transport via pipeline.
Transport via pipeline. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Transport via pipeline. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
49300 is a sub-class of class 4930, transport via pipeline. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes transport of gases, liquids, water slurry and other commodities via pipelines including operation of pump stations
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 49300 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For transport via pipeline, that activity is 49300.
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
Transport via pipeline, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 4930, transport via pipeline.
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 4930, 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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