The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For this activity, that activity is 45101.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
45101 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for the activity named above: a sub-class of class 4510, sale of motor vehicles, within division 45, wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 45Group 451Class 4510Sub-class 45101
Wholesale and retail sale of new vehicles (passenger motor vehicles, ambulances, minibuses, jeeps, trucks, trailers and semi-trailers)
Sub-class 45101 · Class 4510 · Group 451 · Division 45 · Section G, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
451015 digits: 45 + 1 + 0 + 1NIC 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 45101. 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 45 covers wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles. It sits in section G, wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles.
Sale of motor vehicles.
Sale of motor vehicles. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Wholesale and retail sale of new vehicles (passenger motor vehicles, ambulances, minibuses, jeeps, trucks, trailers and semi-trailers). The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
45101 is a sub-class of class 4510, sale of motor vehicles. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes wholesale and retail sale of new and used passenger motor vehicles and lorries, trailers and lorries, trailers and semi trailers
This class excludes:
- - wholesale and retail sale of parts and accessories for motor vehicles, see 4530
- - renting of motor vehicles with driver, see 4922
- - renting of trucks with driver, see 4923
- - renting of motor vehicles and trucks without driver, see 7710
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 45101 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For this activity, that activity is 45101.
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
45101 is for the activity named at the top of this page. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 4510. Each has its own page with the official wording.
Class 4510 has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 45101.
Questions
Wholesale and retail sale of new vehicles (passenger motor vehicles, ambulances, minibuses, jeeps, trucks, trailers and semi-trailers), in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 4510, sale of motor vehicles.
Class 4510, sale of motor vehicles, has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 45101, they are: 45102 (Wholesale and retail sale of used motor vehicles).
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 4510, 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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