Manipur homestay guide

Practical property and application checklist
Reviewed 5 September 2026

### Starting facts
- [ ] Exact property address
- [ ] District
- [ ] Village/ward
- [ ] ULB/municipality/ADC
- [ ] Master Plan/notified planning area status
- [ ] Plains/hills classification confirmed
- [ ] Existing / proposed / under construction / already running
- [ ] Near lake/waterway/forest/protected/heritage area?
- [ ] Proposed Homestay or B&B?
- [ ] Proposed classification: Premium / Deluxe / Standard
- [ ] Planned guest rooms: 1–6
- [ ] Planned guest beds: no more than 12
- [ ] Total building rooms separately recorded
### Ownership and applicant file
- [ ] Legal owner names
- [ ] Proof of ownership
- [ ] Co-owner/co-sharer position
- [ ] Co-sharer affidavit where applicable
- [ ] Lease deed where applicable
- [ ] Written Tourism clarification if proposed holder is lessee
- [ ] Proposed registration holder identified
- [ ] Owner/promoter residence plan documented
- [ ] Family residence confirmed for Homestay
- [ ] Resident designated operator identified for absentee-owner B&B
- [ ] Written clarification if registration holder is company/LLP/firm
- [ ] Professional management structure separately documented
### Property readiness
- [ ] Local building/use legality checked
- [ ] Planning/building sanction checked
- [ ] Occupancy/completion position checked
- [ ] Room areas measured
- [ ] Room ventilation/damp/pest condition checked
- [ ] Bathroom configuration checked
- [ ] 24-hour hot/cold water
- [ ] Sewerage/septic legality checked
- [ ] Clean kitchen
- [ ] Parking/access against target grade
- [ ] Power sockets
- [ ] Heating/AC against target grade
- [ ] Internet against target grade
- [ ] Drinking-water arrangement
- [ ] Lobby/seating against target grade
- [ ] Fire extinguisher/fire-fighting facilities
- [ ] Local Fire NOC requirement checked
- [ ] Waste-disposal system
- [ ] Doctor contact information
- [ ] Accessibility facilities recorded
- [ ] Local environmental/protected-location clearance checked
### Application
- [ ] Annexure I complete
- [ ] Category selected
- [ ] Owner/promoter background details
- [ ] Property contact/address
- [ ] Required distance fields
- [ ] Ownership/lease evidence
- [ ] Co-sharer affidavit
- [ ] District police clearance
- [ ] Room/bath/public-area details
- [ ] Fire-equipment details
- [ ] Building/interior/bathroom/living/bedroom/parking photographs
- [ ] Annexure II checklist
- [ ] Annexure III owner undertaking
- [ ] Annexure IV SP police certificate
- [ ] Current portal URL confirmed
- [ ] Current portal upload requirements confirmed
- [ ] Digital fee prepared
- [ ] Submission receipt retained
### Inspection
- [ ] Property continuously inspection-ready after application
- [ ] All mandatory grade items physically present
- [ ] Supporting originals/copies available
- [ ] ULB/ADC issues resolved
- [ ] Police/background documentation available
- [ ] Inspection observations documented
- [ ] Deficiencies calendared
- [ ] All deficiencies cured within period fixed by committee and never later than three-month maximum
- [ ] Final classification decision retained
### Operations
- [ ] Classification standards continuously maintained
- [ ] Breakfast type and charges disclosed/displayed
- [ ] FSSAI/FoSCoS position completed
- [ ] GST/tax position separately reviewed
- [ ] Domestic guest-process policy established without inventing a Tourism reporting rule
- [ ] Current ILP information available for guests where relevant
- [ ] FRRO/Form III account ready before hosting foreign/OCI guests
- [ ] Foreign arrival submitted within 24h
- [ ] Foreign departure submitted within 24h
- [ ] Foreign guest electronic records retained at least one year
- [ ] Waste/fire/water systems maintained
- [ ] Tourism facility changes notified within 30 days
- [ ] Local permits/licences kept current
- [ ] Insurance considered as a risk-management measure, not represented as a tourism requirement
### Renewal
- [ ] Certificate expiry recorded
- [ ] Reclassification preparation starts before three-month filing point
- [ ] Current guideline/portal rechecked
- [ ] Current grade standards rechecked
- [ ] Updated police/document requirements confirmed
- [ ] Current fee confirmed
- [ ] Any changes in ownership/lease/operator disclosed and cleared
- [ ] Renewal/reclassification submission receipt retained