Arunachal Pradesh homestay guide

Practical property and application checklist
Reviewed 5 September 2026

### Starting facts
- Exact property address
- District
- Village/ward
- Rural/urban/municipal status
- Protected/forest/border/heritage status
- Existing/proposed/under-construction/running
- Current number of total rooms
- Proposed guest rooms
- Proposed maximum guests
- Food service yes/no
- Foreign guests intended yes/no
- Current Tourism registration number/grade/expiry if running
### Ownership and applicant file
- Applicant full legal name
- Age
- ST certificate
- PRC
- LPC/allotment/property document
- Joint-owner details
- NOC where applicable
- Three passport photographs
- Educational-qualification document
- Resident address
- Evidence owner/family occupies property/compound
- Proposed authorised person
- Employer status and Annex III Government-employment declaration
- Written DTO clarification if company/LLP/operator model proposed
### Property readiness
- Existing completed house
- Guest rooms ≤published four-room cap unless written clarification obtained
- Guest capacity ≤published eight-person cap unless clarified
- Each guest room ≥15 sq. m.
- Attached bathroom/toilet
- Western toilet
- Continuous water
- Hot water
- Basin/shower
- Ventilation
- Clean approach
- Direction signage
- Adequate lighting
- Backup lighting/power planning
- Clean linen
- Lock/key
- Kitchen/food-hygiene readiness
- Waste/garbage arrangements
- Parking information
- Local authority building-approval position
- Fire applicability checked
- Forest/environmental status checked
- Water/electricity connection classification checked
- Accessibility improvements assessed
### Application
- EoDB account
- UBIN
- Correct Homestay Registration service
- Current portal form captured for project file
- Required photographs
- ST certificate
- PRC
- property/LPC/allotment/NOC
- education evidence
- building approval information
- room/bed details
- food/facility details
- authorised-person details
- declarations
- fee/challan/eGRAS instruction confirmed before payment
- application reference saved
### Inspection
- Annex I self-score
- Rooms measured
- Bathrooms inspected
- water/hot water tested
- lighting/power backup
- access/signage
- cleanliness/sanitation
- food/kitchen readiness
- safety/security
- waste practices
- guest/feedback registers prepared
- all uploaded originals available
- written inspection observations retained
- classification boundary issue escalated if score is exactly 65 or 80
### Operations
- Certificate validity tracked
- Certificate-display requirement verified against current Act/rule
- Guest register
- Feedback/complaint register
- ILP copies
- PAP copies
- Quarterly DTO reports
- Current statutory statistical-return frequency confirmed
- Foreign accommodation reporting account ready
- Form III submitted ≤24h on foreign arrival
- Foreign departure submitted ≤24h
- Foreign electronic record retained ≥1 year
- FSSAI status checked
- GST status checked
- invoices/accounting configured as applicable
- sanitation/waste maintained
- room and facility standards maintained
- contact-detail changes reported
- management/operator changes cleared before implementation
### Renewal
- Expiry date
- DTO renewal window confirmed
- Visitor totals
- Domestic/foreign visitor breakup
- feedback records
- ILP/PAP records
- previous-year performance
- current classification standard
- current STCI requirement confirmed
- renewal inspection readiness
- renewal fee confirmed
- current EoDB renewal form
- certificate received and archived