Mizoram homestay guide

Practical property and application checklist
Reviewed 5 September 2026

### Starting facts
- [ ] Exact property address
- [ ] District/sub-division
- [ ] Village/ward/local-body classification
- [ ] Existing/proposed/under-construction/running
- [ ] Intended number of tourist rooms
- [ ] Intended bed capacity
- [ ] Intended food service
- [ ] Intended foreign-guest acceptance
- [ ] Protected/forest/heritage/environment status checked
- [ ] Whether project depends on subsidy/loan
### Ownership and applicant file
- [ ] Owner identity
- [ ] Revenue/title document
- [ ] LSC/Land Pass where applicable
- [ ] Sale deed
- [ ] Lease deed/Lease Certificate if applicable — **written Tourism clarification first**
- [ ] Co-sharer affidavit/consent
- [ ] Inheritance/succession documents
- [ ] Applicant entity identified
- [ ] Resident host identified
- [ ] Owner/family residence evidence
- [ ] Management/operator arrangement identified separately
- [ ] Local police clearance
- [ ] Owner undertaking/affidavit
- [ ] Company/LLP route, if proposed, cleared in writing
### Property readiness
- [ ] 100 sq ft minimum single rooms
- [ ] 120 sq ft minimum double rooms
- [ ] 30 sq ft minimum bathrooms
- [ ] Attached bathroom arrangement
- [ ] Hot/cold water
- [ ] Adequate ventilation
- [ ] Electrical sockets/safety
- [ ] Climate-appropriate fan/heating/cooling
- [ ] Dining area
- [ ] Hygienic kitchen
- [ ] Fire extinguisher/fire blanket
- [ ] Smoke/heat detectors
- [ ] First aid
- [ ] Doctor/emergency contacts
- [ ] Covered garbage disposal
- [ ] Sewage/drainage arrangement
- [ ] Adequate parking
- [ ] Safe road/path access
- [ ] Door locks/security
- [ ] CCTV provision
- [ ] Public-liability insurance
- [ ] Certified building plan
- [ ] Local building/use legality confirmed
### Application
- [ ] Current portal account
- [ ] Form 3/current digital equivalent
- [ ] Location plan
- [ ] Building/interior photographs
- [ ] Ownership/lease documents
- [ ] Co-sharer affidavit
- [ ] Police clearance
- [ ] Annexure E checklist
- [ ] Certified building plan
- [ ] Blueprint if still required
- [ ] Signed Tourist Register sample if still required
- [ ] Bill book if still required
- [ ] Current fee confirmed from written/current official source
- [ ] Portal upload format/limits checked
### Inspection
- [ ] All tourist rooms available for inspection
- [ ] Measurements verified
- [ ] Annexure E mandatory items complete
- [ ] Annexure F classification evidence ready
- [ ] Safety equipment functional
- [ ] Kitchen/dining clean
- [ ] Guest records/books ready where required
- [ ] Deficiencies documented
- [ ] Rectification response retained
- [ ] Final classification decision retained
### Operations
- [ ] Registration/classification displayed
- [ ] Approved tariffs displayed
- [ ] Emergency contacts displayed
- [ ] Emergency-exit information in rooms
- [ ] Guest register maintained
- [ ] Government IDs recorded as required
- [ ] Monthly Tourism report
- [ ] Fortnightly state/local guest reporting
- [ ] Foreign Form III reporting within 24 hours
- [ ] Foreign departure report within 24 hours
- [ ] Foreign records kept at least one year
- [ ] Bill/receipt system
- [ ] Complaint/suggestion book
- [ ] Visitor register
- [ ] CCTV maintained
- [ ] Insurance maintained
- [ ] Fire/safety equipment maintained
- [ ] FSSAI status checked if food business operated
- [ ] GST position reviewed
- [ ] Local/Village Council registration completed
- [ ] Material facility changes reported within 30 days
### Renewal
- [ ] Certificate expiry date diarised
- [ ] Reclassification process started at least three months before expiry under published guideline
- [ ] Current renewal deadline confirmed
- [ ] Current renewal fee confirmed
- [ ] Property reinspected/readied
- [ ] Changed title/operator/rooms disclosed
- [ ] Old certificate retained
- [ ] Updated police/local documents obtained if required
- [ ] Current 2026 Rules checked again before filing