Bihar homestay guide

Practical property and application checklist
Reviewed 5 September 2026

### Starting facts
- [ ] Exact property address
- [ ] Latitude/longitude
- [ ] Relevant one of the 34 listed tourism places
- [ ] Evidence of ≤5-km distance
- [ ] District
- [ ] Municipality/Nagar Panchayat/Gram Panchayat/planning-area status
- [ ] Existing/proposed/under-construction/running status
- [ ] Total rooms in entire accommodation unit
- [ ] Proposed guest rooms
- [ ] Proposed beds/guest capacity
- [ ] Intended food service
- [ ] Intended foreign-guest acceptance
- [ ] Intended owner/operator/management arrangement
### Ownership and applicant file
- [ ] Sale/title deed
- [ ] Current title/encumbrance review
- [ ] Mutation/revenue record where relevant
- [ ] ≥10-year lease if lessee route
- [ ] All co-owner NOCs
- [ ] Applicant Aadhaar
- [ ] Applicant PAN
- [ ] Applicant passport-size photograph
- [ ] Aadhaar-linked bank account
- [ ] Cancelled cheque
- [ ] Government-employee status checked
- [ ] Entity/LLP/company route confirmed in writing if relevant
- [ ] Title/dispute self-declaration prepared
### Property readiness
- [ ] Land-use/conversion status checked
- [ ] Building sanction status checked
- [ ] Completion/occupancy status checked
- [ ] ASI protected-monument screening
- [ ] ESZ/forest/wildlife screening
- [ ] Fire NOC/audit applicability checked
- [ ] Every guest room ≥120 sq ft
- [ ] Every guest bathroom ≥30 sq ft
- [ ] Attached bathroom
- [ ] Western WC
- [ ] 24-hour water
- [ ] Drinking water
- [ ] Hot-water facility
- [ ] Uninterrupted electricity
- [ ] Fan
- [ ] Heating/cooling AC
- [ ] Safe wiring/sockets
- [ ] Cupboard/hangers
- [ ] Safe/clean kitchen
- [ ] First-aid kit
- [ ] Emergency numbers displayed
- [ ] Pest-control arrangement/records
- [ ] Fire/electrical/structural/security safety assessed
- [ ] Parking/access reviewed
- [ ] Accessibility improvements considered
### Application
- [ ] Online form
- [ ] Ownership/lease proof
- [ ] Route map from main road
- [ ] Front photograph
- [ ] Interior photographs
- [ ] All room photographs
- [ ] Dining photograph
- [ ] Other facility photographs
- [ ] Proposed design/layout if new project
- [ ] Aadhaar
- [ ] PAN
- [ ] Applicant photograph
- [ ] Cancelled cheque
- [ ] Co-owner NOC if relevant
- [ ] Other current portal documents checked
- [ ] ₹2,000 non-refundable fee
- [ ] Payment acknowledgement saved
- [ ] Complete copy of application downloaded/saved
### Inspection
- [ ] Original title/lease documents available
- [ ] Dimensions independently checked
- [ ] Utilities operating
- [ ] Bathroom standards complete
- [ ] Safety provisions complete
- [ ] Pest-control records available
- [ ] First aid/emergency information visible
- [ ] Route/access matches application
- [ ] Photographs correspond to actual property
- [ ] Queries answered truthfully
- [ ] RHC inspection/report date recorded
- [ ] PRC conditions recorded
- [ ] Written construction deadline clarification obtained for new build
### Operations
- [ ] Certificate/registration details maintained
- [ ] Guest register
- [ ] Guest government photo IDs
- [ ] Secure handling of ID copies
- [ ] Foreign-guest Form III registration/reporting capability
- [ ] Monthly domestic/foreign tourism statistics
- [ ] Annual 30-April declaration
- [ ] Six-month inspection readiness
- [ ] FSSAI registration/licence if applicable
- [ ] GST review completed
- [ ] Staff/employment registrations checked
- [ ] Safety equipment maintained
- [ ] Pest-control records maintained
- [ ] Water/electricity systems maintained
- [ ] Complaint handling process
- [ ] Insurance reviewed
- [ ] Incentive five-year commitment tracked if assistance received
### Renewal
- [ ] Five-year COD date recorded
- [ ] Certificate-expiry date recorded
- [ ] Current renewal window rechecked with Department
- [ ] Current portal renewal fields checked
- [ ] ₹1,000 renewal fee budgeted
- [ ] Outstanding compliance/query/inspection issues resolved
- [ ] Property/operator/ownership changes disclosed
- [ ] Current scheme/amendments rechecked before filing