Puducherry homestay guide

Practical property and application checklist
Reviewed 5 September 2026

### Starting facts
- [ ] Exact property address
- [ ] Puducherry/Karaikal/Mahe/Yanam region
- [ ] Municipality or Commune Panchayat
- [ ] Planning authority
- [ ] Urban/rural Tourism classification confirmed
- [ ] Existing / proposed / under construction / running
- [ ] Intended Home Stay/B&B/other category
- [ ] Intended Silver/Gold grade
- [ ] Guest-room count
- [ ] Guest-bed count
- [ ] Who physically resides in establishment
- [ ] Who will operate/manage
- [ ] Who invoices and collects guest revenue
### Ownership and applicant file
- [ ] Title holder identified
- [ ] Sale deed / lease deed
- [ ] House Tax receipt where used
- [ ] Revenue ownership papers
- [ ] Co-sharer affidavit if applicable
- [ ] All co-owner consents clarified
- [ ] Applicant/registration-holder identity confirmed
- [ ] Lessee/entity eligibility confirmed in writing where relevant
- [ ] Annexure A police verification
- [ ] Owner/promoter/family residence arrangement documented
### Property readiness
- [ ] Land-use/zoning checked
- [ ] Sanctioned plan checked
- [ ] Completion/occupancy position checked
- [ ] Heritage status checked
- [ ] CRZ status checked
- [ ] Access/road width checked
- [ ] Parking checked
- [ ] Each guest-room area measured
- [ ] Each bathroom area measured
- [ ] Attached bathrooms
- [ ] Ventilation/outside window
- [ ] 24-hour hot/cold water
- [ ] Sewerage
- [ ] Hygienic kitchen
- [ ] Dining/breakfast area
- [ ] Internet standard for chosen grade
- [ ] Electrical earthed sockets
- [ ] Firefighting equipment
- [ ] Smoke/heat detectors considered
- [ ] Garbage-disposal arrangement
- [ ] Local trade-licence applicability checked
- [ ] Fire NOC applicability checked
- [ ] FSSAI applicability checked
### Application
- [ ] Annexure I completed
- [ ] Category/grade selected
- [ ] Promoter/owner background
- [ ] Address/contact fields
- [ ] Distance fields
- [ ] Property area/title status
- [ ] Room/public-area details
- [ ] Fire-equipment details
- [ ] Building/interior/bathroom/bedroom/parking photos
- [ ] ₹100 application-fee receipt
- [ ] Annexure II signed/certified on every page
- [ ] Annexure III signed by owner
- [ ] Classification/reclassification fee payment instrument
- [ ] Current submission/payment route confirmed with Tourism
- [ ] Copy of complete submitted file retained
### Inspection
- [ ] Property continuously inspection-ready
- [ ] Mandatory Annexure-II items physically present
- [ ] Supporting title/police originals available
- [ ] Measurements verified
- [ ] Deficiency list obtained in writing
- [ ] Rectification deadline recorded
- [ ] Rectification evidence retained
- [ ] Classification decision retained
- [ ] Registration number/certificate retained
### Operations
- [ ] Registration number prominently displayed
- [ ] Guest check-in/out register maintained
- [ ] Foreign-guest Form III account active before accepting foreign guests
- [ ] Foreign arrival report within 24 hours
- [ ] Foreign departure report within 24 hours
- [ ] Foreign accommodation records retained electronically for at least one year
- [ ] Municipal waste compliance
- [ ] Fire equipment maintained
- [ ] Kitchen hygiene maintained
- [ ] FSSAI compliance maintained if applicable
- [ ] Doctor contact available
- [ ] Required guest facilities maintained
- [ ] Facility changes notified to Director Tourism within 30 days
- [ ] OTIS applicability confirmed
- [ ] Tax/GST treatment reviewed
- [ ] Labour-registration position reviewed
### Renewal
- [ ] Certificate issue date recorded
- [ ] Three-year expiry date recorded
- [ ] Ownership unchanged
- [ ] Facility changes reconciled
- [ ] Current renewal/reclassification form obtained
- [ ] Current reclassification fee confirmed
- [ ] Filing window confirmed directly with Tourism
- [ ] Fresh police verification requirement confirmed
- [ ] Inspection readiness renewed
- [ ] New certificate obtained before relying on continued classification