India - Trade Survey: NSS 53rd Round, Schedule 2.41.2, January 1997 - December 1997

The description and the 4-digited codes of the indrustrial activity will be recorded against this item. For recording the codes, firstly, the type of trading activity (wholesale / retail / commission agents etc. ) the enterprise is pursuing has to be ascertained. Then the appropriate code may be recorded from the NIC 1987 booklet.It may be noted that the code and the de­scription of the industrial activity should match perfectly.In case the enterprise is running on a mixed scale, the NIC code will be decided on the basis of the major activity. "Major activ­ity" will mean the activity which entails major income /turnover /employment. The list of eligible 4- digited NIC codes are given in the appendix of instruction manual.