Maharashtra homestay guide

Practical property and application checklist
Reviewed 5 September 2026

### Starting facts
- [ ] Exact property address
- [ ] Survey/CTS/property number
- [ ] District
- [ ] Local body/planning authority
- [ ] Rural/urban status
- [ ] CRZ status checked
- [ ] Forest/ESZ/wildlife status checked
- [ ] Heritage/archaeology status checked
- [ ] Flood/river restrictions checked where relevant
- [ ] Existing/proposed/under-construction/running status
- [ ] Intended accommodation category
- [ ] Intended number of guest rooms
- [ ] Intended beds/maximum guests
- [ ] Owner will/will not reside at property
- [ ] Proposed operator identified
- [ ] Food-service model identified
- [ ] Foreign guests intended/not intended
### Ownership and applicant file
- [ ] Applicant identity
- [ ] Applicant Aadhaar
- [ ] Applicant PAN
- [ ] Business PAN if applicable
- [ ] Entity registration if applicable
- [ ] Current Udyam position checked if relevant
- [ ] Ownership proof
- [ ] Co-owner/inheritance position checked
- [ ] Lease, if any
- [ ] Owner consent if structure requires it
- [ ] No pending title dispute inconsistent with declaration
- [ ] Registration-holder/operator question resolved in writing where non-standard
- [ ] Resident-owner facts documented
### Property readiness
- [ ] Construction permission or accepted equivalent
- [ ] Completion certificate or accepted equivalent
- [ ] Occupancy/use status checked locally
- [ ] Building/zoning compliance confirmed
- [ ] Room inventory measured
- [ ] Room areas recorded
- [ ] Attached toilets recorded
- [ ] Ventilation checked
- [ ] Electricity operational
- [ ] Water operational
- [ ] Sanitation operational
- [ ] Access road recorded
- [ ] Parking status recorded
- [ ] Fire-safety requirements assessed
- [ ] First-aid kit
- [ ] Emergency-contact display prepared
- [ ] Solid-waste system
- [ ] Sewage/wastewater system
- [ ] Pool permissions if applicable
- [ ] Noise-management plan
- [ ] Required environmental/local NOCs identified
### Application
- [ ] Mahabooking preregistration complete
- [ ] Mahabooking registration copy/number
- [ ] Local police character certificate
- [ ] NOC from neighbouring resident 1
- [ ] NOC from neighbouring resident 2
- [ ] Minimum five property/room photographs
- [ ] Room areas entered
- [ ] Facility yes/no fields answered truthfully
- [ ] Food availability answered truthfully
- [ ] Payment methods entered
- [ ] Running-property history entered where applicable
- [ ] GRAS ₹2,500 paid
- [ ] GRAS challan attached
- [ ] Signed declaration
- [ ] Signed terms and conditions
- [ ] Operator signature where applicable
- [ ] All relevant external permissions/NOCs attached/available
### Inspection
- [ ] Submitted information matches actual property
- [ ] Registered room inventory matches physical rooms
- [ ] No unauthorised extra tourist rooms
- [ ] Safety equipment functioning
- [ ] Rooms/toilets/bathrooms clean
- [ ] Kitchen/common spaces hygienic
- [ ] First-aid kit stocked
- [ ] Emergency contacts displayed
- [ ] Waste arrangements operational
- [ ] Documents available for inspection
- [ ] Any DoT query answered in writing
- [ ] Inspection findings retained
### Operations
- [ ] DoT certificate displayed
- [ ] Mahabooking certificate displayed
- [ ] Mahabooking booking/inventory system maintained
- [ ] NIDHI registration completed
- [ ] DoT data verification completed
- [ ] NIDHI Pledge certificate displayed
- [ ] Green Leaf Rating obtained/maintained
- [ ] Digital guest records maintained
- [ ] Guest identity details recorded
- [ ] Form III accommodation registration ready before foreign guests
- [ ] Foreign/OCI arrival reporting within 24 hours
- [ ] Foreign/OCI departure reporting within 24 hours
- [ ] Foreign accommodation records retained at least one year
- [ ] FSSAI/FoSCoS compliance if food supplied
- [ ] GST position reviewed
- [ ] Guest safety measures maintained
- [ ] Fire/electrical safety maintained
- [ ] Hygiene/ventilation maintained
- [ ] Waste and sewage managed
- [ ] Plastic/noise terms followed
- [ ] Neighbour disturbance avoided
- [ ] Pool permissions maintained where applicable
- [ ] Complaints logged/resolved
- [ ] Major changes notified to DoT
### Renewal/change
- [ ] Current certificate validity confirmed directly with DoT
- [ ] Renewal procedure confirmed
- [ ] Renewal fee confirmed
- [ ] Renewal window confirmed
- [ ] Change-of-room procedure confirmed
- [ ] Ownership-change procedure confirmed
- [ ] Operator-change procedure confirmed
- [ ] Sale/succession procedure confirmed
- [ ] Property not continuously non-operational for more than one year
- [ ] New Policy/form version checked before each renewal/change