Jharkhand homestay guide

Practical property and application checklist
Reviewed 5 September 2026

### Starting facts
- [ ] Exact property address
- [ ] District
- [ ] ULB / Nagar Panchayat / Gram Panchayat / other local authority
- [ ] Existing / proposed / under construction / running
- [ ] Current sanctioned use
- [ ] Proposed guest-room count
- [ ] Proposed guest-bed count
- [ ] Total rooms in building
- [ ] Owner/family rooms
- [ ] Food to be served? Yes/No
- [ ] Foreign guests intended? Yes/No
- [ ] Structural work planned? Yes/No
- [ ] Protected/forest/heritage/notified-tourism-area check
### Ownership and applicant file
- [ ] Title holder identified
- [ ] Joint/co-owner status recorded
- [ ] Lease status recorded
- [ ] Proposed registration holder identified
- [ ] Applicant residency/domicile facts recorded
- [ ] Resident host identified
- [ ] Proposed operator/management company identified
- [ ] Employer entity identified
- [ ] Contracting/invoicing entity identified
- [ ] Written Tourism Department answer obtained where applicant/operator structure is non-standard
**Do not mark the following mandatory until current 2023 Rules are verified:** title-upload format, owner NOC, co-owner affidavit, lease duration, PoA, PAN/GST upload, character certificate.
### Property readiness
- [ ] Sanctioned building plan checked
- [ ] Existing deviations identified
- [ ] Completion/occupancy position checked
- [ ] Proposed accommodation use checked
- [ ] Structural additions approved where required
- [ ] Fire position checked
- [ ] Access checked
- [ ] Parking checked
- [ ] Water supply checked
- [ ] Electricity/load checked
- [ ] Sewage/septic arrangement checked
- [ ] Solid-waste arrangement checked
- [ ] Guest-safety measures documented
- [ ] Current 2023 homestay room/bathroom/facility checklist obtained
### Application
- [ ] Portal account created by actual applicant
- [ ] Current homestay category confirmed
- [ ] Current fee confirmed from Rules/portal
- [ ] Current document checklist downloaded
- [ ] All declarations reviewed truthfully
- [ ] Uploads match title/building/application facts
- [ ] Payment receipt retained
- [ ] Application reference/date retained
- [ ] 90-day statutory period tracked
- [ ] Queries and replies retained
### Inspection
- [ ] Current inspection checklist obtained
- [ ] Room count matches application
- [ ] Building layout matches approvals/application
- [ ] Safety/sanitation facilities functional
- [ ] Records produced as requested
- [ ] Inspection report/query retained
- [ ] Deficiencies cured through recorded process
- [ ] Registration certificate/record obtained before treating operation as regularised
### Operations
- [ ] Certificate available/displayed/produced as required
- [ ] Rate-display process established
- [ ] Detailed invoices/receipts issued
- [ ] Booking-rate commitments honoured
- [ ] Domestic guest-record requirements confirmed
- [ ] Monthly tourism-statistics process established
- [ ] Form C account/process active before hosting foreign guests
- [ ] FSSAI status assessed where food is served
- [ ] GST position assessed separately
- [ ] Shops & Establishments position assessed
- [ ] Local trade/licence position assessed
- [ ] Staff/caretaker verification requirement confirmed locally
- [ ] Incident/escalation procedure established
- [ ] Waste/sanitation maintained
- [ ] Insurance assessed as a business-risk measure
### Renewal / change
- [ ] Current validity printed from certificate/rule
- [ ] Renewal window calendared
- [ ] Current renewal fee verified
- [ ] Ownership changes reported before implementation
- [ ] Operator/management changes checked with Department
- [ ] Room changes checked before works/operation
- [ ] Building alterations locally approved
- [ ] Sale/inheritance/lease events checked for certificate-transfer consequences
- [ ] New certificate/fresh registration obtained where legally required