Meghalaya homestay guide

Practical property and application checklist
Reviewed 5 September 2026

### Starting facts
- Exact postal address
- District
- Village/locality
- GPS/site map for internal assessment
- Master Plan/Municipal/Scheme Area status
- ADC/local/town authority
- Current land use
- Existing or proposed building
- Existing accommodation operation, if any
- Current total rooms
- Intended guest rooms
- Intended maximum guests
- Food-service plan
- Foreign-guest plan
### Ownership and applicant file
- Title/land-right document
- Customary/community permissions where applicable
- Co-owner position
- Lease and remaining term
- Owner identity
- Proposed registration holder
- Proposed operator
- Proposed employer
- Proposed billing/GST entity
- Company/LLP/firm constitutional documents where relevant
- Written authority clarification where applicant structure is not expressly supported
### Property readiness
- Existing sanctioned plan
- Existing Occupancy Certificate
- Proposed architectural plan
- Proposed guest-room count
- Change-of-use assessment
- Structural assessment
- Access/road assessment
- Parking assessment
- Water source
- hot-water plan
- wastewater/septic plan
- waste segregation
- electricity/load/backup
- fire-safety assessment
- protected-area/environment check
- accessibility assessment
### Application
- District Administration NOC
- District Police NOC
- Fire NOC where applicable
- building/local approvals
- Mtime/provider account
- owner/applicant IDs
- property documents
- plans/maps
- food registration/licence where applicable
- GST registration where applicable
- Component 3 forms/DPR/financial plan if scheme is pursued
### Inspection
- Property matches sanctioned plan
- Actual room count matches declared category
- NOCs available
- fire installations operational
- water/waste systems operational
- guest rooms ready
- all scheme-specific Component 3 standards, if beneficiary
- inspection report/query log retained
### Operations
- Daily Tourism guest reporting
- Domestic guest identity process
- Foreign Form III process
- foreign electronic records retained ≥1 year
- food/FSSAI compliance
- guest invoices/tax compliance
- fire equipment maintenance
- building maintenance
- waste segregation
- staff records
- incident/escalation file
- licences/NOCs expiry register
### Renewal/change
Because a comprehensive ordinary Tourism renewal rule was not located, maintain:
- certificate/NOC expiry dates;
- planned room changes;
- title/lease changes;
- operator changes;
- company-control changes;
- fire renewal requirements;
- food licence renewal;
- material building alterations;
- written Tourism/local-authority confirmation before sale, succession or transfer.