The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For urban or suburban tramways, that activity is 49212.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
49212 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for urban or suburban tramways: a sub-class of class 4921, urban or suburban passenger land transport, 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 492Class 4921Sub-class 49212
Urban or suburban tramways
Sub-class 49212 · Class 4921 · Group 492 · 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.
492125 digits: 49 + 2 + 1 + 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 49212. 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.
Other land transport.
Urban or suburban passenger land transport. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Urban or suburban tramways. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
49212 is a sub-class of class 4921, urban or suburban passenger land transport. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes land transport of passengers by urban or suburban transport systems. The transport is carried out on scheduled routes normally following a fixed time schedule, entailing the picking up and setting down of passengers at normally fixed stops.
This class excludes:
- - passenger transport by inter-urban railways, see 4911
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 49212 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For urban or suburban tramways, that activity is 49212.
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
49212 is for urban or suburban tramways. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 4921. Each has its own page with the official wording.
49213Class 4921 · another sub-class of the same class49219Class 4921 · another sub-class of the same class49211Class 4921 · another sub-class of the same classClass 4921 has 4 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 49212.
Questions
Urban or suburban tramways, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 4921, urban or suburban passenger land transport.
Class 4921, urban or suburban passenger land transport, has 4 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 49212, they are: 49213 (Urban or suburban underground or elevated rillways); 49219 (Other urban or suburban passenger transport n.e.c.); 49211 (Urban or suburban passenger bus transport (excluding chartered bus)).
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 4921, 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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