Telangana homestay guide

Practical property and application checklist
Reviewed 5 September 2026

### Starting facts
- [ ] Exact property address
- [ ] District
- [ ] Local body: GHMC / municipality / Nagar Panchayat / Gram Panchayat / other
- [ ] Existing/proposed/under-construction/running
- [ ] Current sanctioned building use
- [ ] Heritage/protected-monument/forest/special-area check
- [ ] Intended Silver or Gold grade
- [ ] Total rooms in entire building
- [ ] Rooms proposed for guests
- [ ] Beds proposed for guests
- [ ] Written clarification obtained if >5 rooms or >10 beds
- [ ] Written clarification obtained if owner will not reside
### Ownership and applicant file
- [ ] Title/sale deed
- [ ] Lease deed, if leased
- [ ] Encumbrance/title due diligence
- [ ] Co-owner/inheritance authority
- [ ] Applicant identity fixed
- [ ] Resident host fixed
- [ ] Operator fixed
- [ ] Registration-holder/operator distinction reviewed
- [ ] Company/LLP/lessee eligibility confirmed in writing where relevant
- [ ] Promoter background note
- [ ] Resident family/authorised-person particulars
- [ ] Police verification
### Property readiness
- [ ] Approved building plan
- [ ] Occupancy/completion position checked
- [ ] Required land-use/conversion approvals
- [ ] Required Fire NOC determination
- [ ] Parking and road-width check
- [ ] Guest rooms meet 120 sq ft Silver / 200 sq ft Gold
- [ ] Bathrooms meet 30 sq ft Silver / 40 sq ft Gold
- [ ] Attached private bathroom for each guest room
- [ ] Hot and cold water
- [ ] Sewage connection
- [ ] Hygienic smoke-free kitchen
- [ ] Breakfast dining area
- [ ] Heating/cooling standard
- [ ] Internet
- [ ] Required furniture/wardrobes
- [ ] Gold-grade additional facilities, if applying Gold
- [ ] Municipal-compliant garbage disposal
- [ ] Doctor contact details
- [ ] Fire/smoke-safety review
- [ ] Accessibility reviewed under applicable building law
### Application
- [ ] Annexure I completed
- [ ] Silver/Gold category selected
- [ ] Sale/lease deed copy
- [ ] Approved building plan copy
- [ ] Police clearance copy
- [ ] Signed Annexure II checklist
- [ ] Signed Annexure III undertaking
- [ ] Annexure IV police verification
- [ ] Owner casualty/liability affidavit
- [ ] Exterior photographs
- [ ] Bedroom photographs
- [ ] Bathroom photographs
- [ ] Living/common-area photographs
- [ ] Parking photographs
- [ ] Food type stated
- [ ] Single/double tariff stated
- [ ] Current fee/payment route confirmed
- [ ] Portal-vs-physical submission confirmed
### Inspection
- [ ] Property fully operational
- [ ] All classification facilities functioning
- [ ] Records/document originals available
- [ ] No deferred-inspection assumption
- [ ] Deficiency list documented
- [ ] Rectification deadline documented
- [ ] Committee outcome retained
- [ ] Classification order/certificate retained
- [ ] Appeal deadline diarised if needed
### Operations
- [ ] Charges displayed
- [ ] Breakfast offer stated to guest
- [ ] Guest register maintained
- [ ] Visitor book maintained
- [ ] Monthly guest remarks forwarded to Tourism
- [ ] Passport/ID process established
- [ ] FRRO/Form III account/reporting established before foreign guests
- [ ] FSSAI status determined
- [ ] GST status determined
- [ ] Local trade-licence status determined
- [ ] Municipal waste compliance
- [ ] Safety/medical assistance process
- [ ] Insurance reviewed
- [ ] No unauthorised Telangana Tourism logo/name
- [ ] Tariff changes notified
- [ ] New tourism activities notified
- [ ] Facility changes reported within 30 days
### Renewal
- [ ] Certificate issue/expiry dates diarised
- [ ] Renewal action begins at least 3 months before expiry
- [ ] Current renewal form/fee checked
- [ ] Physical facilities rechecked
- [ ] Changes since prior classification disclosed
- [ ] Police/building/FSSAI/local approvals revalidated as applicable
- [ ] Renewal certificate obtained before relying on continued classification