The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For undifferentiated goods-producing activities of private households for own use, that activity is 98100.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
98100 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for undifferentiated goods-producing activities of private households for own use: a sub-class of class 9810, undifferentiated goods-producing activities of private households for own use, within division 98, undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of private households for own use. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 98Group 981Class 9810Sub-class 98100
Undifferentiated goods-producing activities of private households for own use
Sub-class 98100 · Class 9810 · Group 981 · Division 98 · Section T, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
981005 digits: 98 + 1 + 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 98100. 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 98 covers undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of private households for own use. It sits in section T, activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods and services-producing activities of households for own use.
Undifferentiated goods-producing activities of private households for own use.
Undifferentiated goods-producing activities of private households for own use. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Undifferentiated goods-producing activities of private households for own use. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
98100 is a sub-class of class 9810, undifferentiated goods-producing activities of private households for own use. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes the undifferenciated subsistence goods-producing activities of households, that is the activities of households, that are engaged in a variety of activities that produce goods for their own subsistence. These activities include hunting and gathering, farming, the production of shelter and clothing and other goods produced by the household for its own subsistence. In application, if households are also engaged in the production of marketed goods, they are classified to the appropriate goods-producing industry of NIC. If they are principally engaged in a specific goods-producing subsistence activity, they are classified to the appropriate goods-producing industry of NIC
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 98100 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For undifferentiated goods-producing activities of private households for own use, that activity is 98100.
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
Undifferentiated goods-producing activities of private households for own use, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 9810, undifferentiated goods-producing activities of private households for own use.
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 9810, 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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