The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For warehousing non-refrigerated, that activity is 52102.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
52102 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for warehousing non-refrigerated: a sub-class of class 5210, warehousing and storage, within division 52, warehousing and support activities for transportation. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 52Group 521Class 5210Sub-class 52102
Warehousing non-refrigerated
Sub-class 52102 · Class 5210 · Group 521 · Division 52 · 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.
521025 digits: 52 + 1 + 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 52102. 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 52 covers warehousing and support activities for transportation. It sits in section H, transport and storage.
Warehousing and storage.
Warehousing and storage. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Warehousing non-refrigerated. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
52102 is a sub-class of class 5210, warehousing and storage. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - parking facilities for motor vehicles, see 5221
- - operation of self storage facilities, see 6810
- - rental of vacant space, see 6810
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 52102 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For warehousing non-refrigerated, that activity is 52102.
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
52102 is for warehousing non-refrigerated. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 5210. Each has its own page with the official wording.
52109Class 5210 · another sub-class of the same class52101Class 5210 · another sub-class of the same classClass 5210 has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 52102.
Questions
Warehousing non-refrigerated, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 5210, warehousing and storage.
Class 5210, warehousing and storage, has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 52102, they are: 52109 (Storage and warehousing n.e.c.[Includes general merchandise warehouses and warehousing of furniture, automobiles, gas and oil, chemicals, textiles etc. Also included is storage of goods in foreign trade zones]); 52101 (Warehousing of refrigerated (cold storage)).
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 5210, 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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