The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For Worker hostels and boarding houses, that activity is 55902.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
55902 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for Worker hostels and boarding houses: a sub-class of class 5590, other accommodation, within division 55, accommodation. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 55Group 559Class 5590Sub-class 55902
Worker hostels and boarding houses
Sub-class 55902 · Class 5590 · Group 559 · Division 55 · Section I, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
559025 digits: 55 + 9 + 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 55902. 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 55 covers accommodation. It sits in section I, accommodation and food service activities.
Other accommodation.
Other accommodation.
Worker hostels and boarding houses. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 55902 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For Worker hostels and boarding houses, that activity is 55902.
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
55902 is for Worker hostels and boarding houses. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 5590. Each has its own page with the official wording.
Class 5590 has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 55902.
Questions
Worker hostels and boarding houses, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 5590, other accommodation.
Class 5590, other accommodation, has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 55902, they are: 55901 (Accommodation provided by student residences, school dormitories).
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 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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