NIC Code for Laundry and Dry Cleaning in India

A laundry or dry-cleaning business serving clothing and textile items should review NIC 961001 under NIC 2025. The code covers laundry and dry cleaning, pressing, ironing and similar services for clothing, including fur, and textiles. It suits businesses whose customer pays to have garments or textile articles cleaned and finished rather than repaired, manufactured or merely collected for another unrelated service.

Typical services within the 961001 profile

The business may operate a walk-in laundry, pickup-and-delivery model, dry-cleaning shop, ironing service or a combination of these. What matters is the cleaning and finishing activity. Automated booking, home pickup and app-based order tracking may change how customers buy the service, but they do not by themselves change the underlying economic activity.

• washing and laundering of garments;
• dry cleaning of clothing;
• pressing and ironing services;
• similar cleaning treatment for household textiles;
• laundry orders collected and returned to customers.

Carpets and curtains can point to another sub-class

NIC 961002 separately identifies carpet and rug shampooing and drapery or curtain cleaning, whether performed at the client's premises or elsewhere. A laundry that occasionally accepts such work should review how significant it is. If carpet, upholstery-like textile or curtain cleaning is a major service line, the adjacent classification deserves separate attention rather than being hidden under a general laundry label.

Cleaning is different from clothing repair

Alteration, repair and mending of garments are not the same economic activity as washing or dry cleaning. A shop can provide both, but invoices and service menus should make the distinction visible. The same principle applies to businesses manufacturing garments or renting textiles: those activities need their own classification analysis.

Useful wording for registration

Describe the paid activity directly, for example: “Laundry, dry-cleaning, pressing and ironing services for clothing and textiles.” This wording is more useful than “garment services”, which could refer to manufacturing, tailoring, retail or repair. If pickup and delivery are only ancillary to the cleaning order, the core service remains laundry.

For a standard laundry and dry-cleaning establishment, 961001 is the primary NIC 2025 code to consider. Where carpet/curtain cleaning, garment repair or another independently priced activity represents a meaningful part of the business, compare and add the relevant activity code where permitted.