Starting a Homestay in Manipur

01 / Executive finding

The practical starting point

• The current operational Manipur instrument located for tourism registration/classification is the Directorate of Tourism's Common Standards and Guidelines for Establishment/Classification of Bed & Breakfast Establishments, Homestay Establishments in the State of Manipur, released on 27 September 2020. The Directorate's current Homestay page still publishes that instrument, and a Directorate notification dated 20 June 2025 again directed existing and prospective homestay operators to refer to it. No later replacement homestay guideline was located. [S1, PDF pp.1–8; S2, Homestay page; S3, notification dated 20.06.2025]
• A Manipur Homestay Establishment under the 2020 operational rules requires the owner/promoter and his or her family to be physically resident in the same establishment. This is the principal eligibility constraint and means an absentee-owner property should not simply be described as a homestay. [S1, PDF p.2, Detailed Guideline 1]
• Manipur expressly provides a different category for an absentee owner: a Bed & Breakfast Establishment may have an owner/promoter who does not reside there, provided a designated agent or operator resides on the premises to serve guests. [S1, PDF p.2, Detailed Guideline 2]
• Both published tourism categories are limited to minimum 1 and maximum 6 guest rooms, with a maximum of 12 beds. No separate cap on the total number of rooms in the entire residential building was located. [S1, PDF p.2, Detailed Guidelines 1–2]
• The tourism scheme has three classification levels: Premium, Deluxe and Standard. Verified registration/classification/reclassification fees are ₹2,500, ₹2,000 and ₹1,000 respectively, payable digitally. [S1, PDF pp.2–4, Detailed Guidelines 7 and 19]
• Registration/classification is valid for two years. Timely reclassification requires an application three months before expiry. The guideline also gives a 30-day disposal period, but only from receipt of an online application that is complete, deficiency-free and accompanied by confirmed fee receipt; this must not be described as guaranteed 30-day approval. [S1, PDF pp.2–3, Detailed Guidelines 5 and 15]
• Classification is inspection-based. The committee includes tourism, tour-operator, concerned Urban Local Body/Autonomous District Council and Home/District Police representation; its recommendation is approved by the Director (Tourism), Manipur. [S1, PDF p.3, Detailed Guidelines 8–10]
• Leasehold premises are expressly contemplated in the application form, which asks whether the property is owned or leased and requires a lease deed where applicable. However, the rules do not clearly establish that a lessee, company, LLP or professional management company may itself be the tourism registration holder. Confirm this in writing with the authority. [S1, Annexure I, fields 3 and 6(a)–(b); Annexure III]
• There is no express permanent-resident/domicile certificate requirement located in the tourism guideline. Residence is nevertheless central: the homestay rule requires the owner/promoter and family on site, and the prescribed police form identifies the applicant as a resident of a district in Manipur and records duration of residence. These provisions should not be rewritten as a domicile rule. [S1, Detailed Guideline 1; Annexure IV]
• The most important property-development limitation is that tourism registration does not decide local land use, building sanction, occupancy, fire, environment or municipal compliance. For example, the Thoubal Municipal Council Building Bye-Laws, 2025 separately regulate building approval and occupancy within their own jurisdiction and separately define “Home Stay”. [S7, Gazette No.235 dated 15.12.2025, Chapter I; bye-law 9]
• For Thoubal specifically, the building bye-laws define a home stay as paid accommodation within the residential premises of an owner or tenant, while the tourism guideline requires an owner/promoter and family to reside in the establishment. Those instruments have different regulatory purposes and do not establish that a tenant is eligible to hold a Tourism homestay registration. The official sources are not aligned for a tenant-registration conclusion. [S1, Detailed Guideline 1; S7, definition 59]
• Foreign-guest compliance is now governed by the Immigration and Foreigners Rules, 2025. Rule 17 expressly includes a “home stay” within accommodation, requires electronic guest particulars to be retained for at least one year, and requires Form III arrival and departure transmissions within 24 hours. It expressly includes OCI cardholders. [S8, Rule 17(1)–(7), Gazette pp.28/32; S9, Form III portal]
• Manipur's ILP regime is a separate guest-travel issue for Indian visitors who are not exempt/permanent residents. Current Government of Manipur material continues to operate an ILP portal. No current tourism source was located imposing a separate homestay-owner monthly ILP guest return. [S14, clauses 1–4; S15, current portal]
• No current, quantified, automatically available Manipur homestay capital subsidy was located. The 2022 Tourism Policy speaks of facilitating central subsidies and bringing homestays within micro-enterprises, while the 2025 RAMP activity located is capacity building, not evidence of automatic capital assistance. [S4, PDF p.8, §2.17; S3, notification]

02 / Document chronology

Use the current rules and implementation

1. 2014 — Manipur Tourism Policy. An official Government of Manipur PDF remains online and indexed. The current 2022 policy later refers to timelines for implementation of the “Manipur Tourism Policy, 2014”. A clause expressly repealing or superseding the 2014 policy was Not stated in the material reviewed in the 2022 policy. The large 2014 PDF could not be fully fetched during this research, so it is not relied on for a present-day operational requirement. [S5; S4, PDF p.35]
2. 31 December 2019 — Manipur Inner Line Permit Guidelines, 2019. This is an adjacent guest-entry regime, not a homestay classification instrument. It applies across Manipur and has since been amended. [S14]
3. 27 September 2020 — Common Standards and Guidelines for B&B/Homestay. This is the first detailed state instrument located that supplies a Manipur-specific registration definition, room/bed limits, three grades, fees, inspection system and Annexures I–IV. [S1; S2]
4. 23 September 2022 — ILP amendment. Gazette register entry located. It is relevant to visitor entry, not to tourism homestay classification. Full amendment analysis was not necessary to establish the homestay registration route; current visitor permit details should be taken from the current ILP portal and latest Gazette before publication of visitor instructions. [S14/S15]
5. 2022 — Manipur Tourism Policy 2022. It expressly includes homestays in the State's investment/tourism framework and calls for homestays to be brought within micro-enterprises. It also envisages periodic review of hospitality approval/classification guidelines. It does not itself replace the detailed 2020 application annexures. [S4, PDF pp.5, 8 and 33]
6. 20 June 2025 — Directorate homestay capacity-building notification. This is important implementation evidence: prospective and existing operators were directed back to the 2020 Common Standards and Guidelines. [S3]
7. 1 September 2025 — Immigration and Foreigners Rules, 2025. These replaced specified older central foreigner-registration rules and created the current Rule 17 accommodation-reporting regime, expressly including homestays. [S8, Rules 1 and 17]
8. 15 December 2025 — Thoubal Municipal Council Building Bye-Laws, 2025. These demonstrate a newer address-specific planning/building layer and contain their own definition of “Home Stay”. They do not amend S1. [S7, Gazette No.235]
9. 1 April 2026 — revised FSSAI turnover bands effective. The 13 March 2026 order expressly supersedes earlier food-business turnover criteria. [S10, paras 3–5]

Currentness conclusion

The evidence supports treating S1 as the current operational tourism-registration/classification instrument located, because it is still published on the Directorate's current Homestay page and was affirmatively referenced by the Directorate in 2025. That conclusion does not establish that S1 was gazetted or that no unpublished/internal procedural change has occurred. The authenticated application form remains uninspected.

03 / Category definitions

Choose the right accommodation category

The existence of a category name in a local building rule or policy does not itself create eligibility for the Directorate's Homestay classification.

04 / Eligibility decision tree

Check whether the applicant and property qualify

Step 1 — Fix the exact property address and local-body category.

• Identify district, village/ward, municipal/ULB/ADC jurisdiction, Master Plan/notified planning area, and whether the site is near a lake, forest, protected/heritage area or other specially controlled location.
• If those facts are unknown → Confirm this in writing with the authority before construction/acquisition assumptions.
• Tourism itself describes coverage across Manipur, but local permissions remain separate. [S1, introductory clause 1; S7, Chapter I] Step 2 — Establish title or lease.
• Owner with clear ownership proof → proceed.
• Co-owned/co-sharer property → Annexure I requires ownership proof and an affidavit for a co-sharer → proceed subject to accepted affidavit wording.
• Leased property → Annexure I expressly asks for the lease deed, but applicant-holder eligibility is unclear → Confirm this in writing with the authority.
• No selected property → Not established in the published material for any advance tourism registration; property selection comes first. [S1, Annexure I field 6(a)–(b)] Step 3 — Identify the proposed registration holder.
• Resident individual owner/promoter → proceed to residence test.
• Company, LLP, partnership, trust or society → Confirm this in writing with the authority.
• Long-term lessee → Confirm this in writing with the authority.
• Capital investor with no property/host → does not appear to fit the published homestay definition at this stage. Step 4 — Who will actually live at the property?
• Owner/promoter and family will physically live in the establishment → proceed under Homestay.
• Owner will live elsewhere but a designated agent/operator will reside at the premises → MAY FIT THE PUBLISHED B&B DEFINITION, not the Homestay definition.
• Only a non-resident caretaker will be present and it is unclear whether the person is formally the owner's designated operator → Confirm this in writing with the authority. [S1, Detailed Guidelines 1–2] Step 5 — Room and bed plan.
• 1–6 guest rooms and no more than 12 guest beds → proceed.
• 0 guest rooms → does not appear to fit the published homestay definition.
• More than 6 guest rooms or 12 beds → This does not appear to fit the published route&B DEFINITION; Consider another accommodation category, which must be separately identified. [S1, Detailed Guidelines 1–2] Step 6 — Existing/readiness status.
• Existing/running and capable of producing the documents, photographs and facilities in Annexures I–II → proceed to application readiness.
• Proposed/under construction → S1 provides no tourism pre-approval route and requires an applicant property to be inspection-ready → Confirm this in writing with the authority for tourism timing, while local planning/building permissions must be obtained independently.
• Existing building with uncertain sanctioned use/occupancy history → WRITTEN LOCAL-AUTHORITY CLARIFICATION REQUIRED. Step 7 — Classification readiness. If the property satisfies the required mandatory checklist items and the chosen grade → This appears to fit the published route, subject to the remaining checks, subject to inspection and approval. Use these branches as a starting test and confirm the result for the exact property.

05 / Applicant and operating structures

Set the ownership and operating structure

Key distinction: property owner, tourism applicant, resident host, operator, employer, contracting entity and investor should not be collapsed into a single concept unless the actual structure supports that.

06 / Property and classification standards

Prepare the property for inspection

“M” below means mandatory and “D” desirable under Annexure II.

No tourism-rule dimensions were located for kitchen size, bathroom size, corridor width, staircase width, reception counter, signage dimensions, dedicated guest entrance, backup-power capacity or internet speed.

07 / Documents and declarations

Assemble the application file

Portal-specific omissions

The following were Not stated in the current official material reviewed:

• accepted file extensions;
• individual upload-size limits;
• photograph dimensions;
• affidavit stamp value;
• online declaration text;
• applicant Aadhaar requirement for homestay;
• PAN/GST/Udyam field requirements in the tourism application;
• bank details;
• electronic signature method;
• fee gateway surcharge;
• refund workflow;
• query-response upload mechanism; and
• downloadable certificate format.

Download the Manipur property and application checklist ↓

08 / Application and inspection process

Follow the application and inspection process

Source for steps 8–16: S1 Detailed Guidelines 4–16, 19; S6 general portal material.

Inspection committee

The published committee contains:

• State Tourism Department/Tourism Corporation representative;
• tour-operator representative;
• concerned ULB/Autonomous District Council representative; and
• Home Department/District Police representative. The Director (Tourism), Manipur approves its recommendation. [S1, Detailed Guidelines 9–10]

09 / Fees, timelines, validity and renewal

Confirm fees, timing and certificate validity

10 / Operating duties after registration

Run the registered homestay correctly

Tourism duties

A registered Homestay must continue to maintain its required classification standards; the Director may authorise a surprise inspection without prior notice. Material facility changes must be reported to the Director's office within 30 days, with non-compliance capable of withdrawal/termination of registration/classification. [S1, Detailed Guidelines 13–14] The scheme is expressly bed-and-breakfast based. The type of breakfast and charges must be specified/displayed and guests informed in advance. A general statutory room-rate display rule, invoice format or compulsory complaint book was Not stated in the material reviewed in S1. [S1, Detailed Guideline 3]

Certificate display

A tourism-specific rule requiring the classification certificate to be physically displayed at reception was Not stated in the current official material reviewed.

Domestic guest identity/register

A statewide tourism-rule requirement in S1 for:

• copying Aadhaar;
• retaining every domestic guest ID;
• maintaining a particular domestic guest register; or
• filing monthly guest returns was Not stated in the material reviewed. A 2022 Ukhrul District order required Aadhaar details for temporary Shirui Lily Festival arrangements, but that event-specific order should not be converted into a statewide permanent homestay rule.

Inner Line Permit

Indian guests subject to Manipur's ILP regime must separately comply with that entry/stay regime. The current official ILP portal asks visitors for place of stay. A general rule requiring every registered homestay to submit a periodic ILP guest return was Not stated in the material reviewed in the materials reviewed.

Foreign guests

Rule 17 of the Immigration and Foreigners Rules, 2025 applies expressly to “home stay” accommodation. The keeper must:

• collect the prescribed particulars from every foreigner, including an OCI cardholder;
• obtain arrival/departure particulars/signature;
• retain the records electronically for at least one year;
• make records available for prescribed inspection;
• transmit Form III electronically no later than 24 hours after arrival; and
• transmit departure details no later than 24 hours after departure. [S8, Rule 17] The Bureau of Immigration maintains the corresponding accommodation-registration/Form III portal. [S9]

Tourism statistics

The 2022 policy calls for improved tourism-statistics collection, but a specific periodic statistical return imposed on each registered homestay was Not stated in the material reviewed. [S4, PDF p.33, §7.8]

Staff and operator checks

The Tourism annexure prescribes police verification focused on the individual applicant and family. An express tourism rule requiring police verification of every employee, B&B operator or caretaker was Not stated in the material reviewed. The B&B operator issue should be confirmed before filing. [S1, Annexure IV]

Food

Because S1 requires a breakfast offering, the food-business position must be checked separately under FSSAI/FoSCoS. Tourism classification is not an FSSAI licence. Current FSSAI thresholds from 1 April 2026 are:

• registration: turnover up to ₹1.5 crore;
• State licence: above ₹1.5 crore and up to ₹50 crore;
• Central licence: above ₹50 crore, subject to the applicable food-business category/criteria. [S10, paras 3–5]

Tax

Tourism registration does not determine GST registration, rate, invoicing or input-credit treatment. These must be tested against the actual supplier, turnover, booking channel and supplies under current GST law. [S13, CGST Act §22 and related provisions]

Waste, safety and maintenance

Garbage disposal compliant with applicable rules, fire-fighting facilities, running water/sewerage and continued maintenance of classification standards are part of S1's tourism checklist. Local environmental/building requirements remain additional.

11 / Adjacent approvals and dependencies

Close the approvals outside Tourism

For lake-side projects, the 2022 policy states that a Lakes & Waterways mechanism should establish zones/no-construction controls and that construction in/on a lake is not to occur except at distances set by applicable codes outside the no-construction zone. A numerical statewide setback was Not stated in the material reviewed in the policy itself. [S4, PDF p.36, §7.9(B)]

12 / Incentives, subsidy and funding

Evaluate incentives without assuming sanction

A. Homestay-specific quantified state capital subsidy

Not stated in the current official material reviewed. No current Manipur Tourism instrument reviewed supplied:

• a verified percentage capital subsidy;
• a rupee ceiling;
• eligible-project-cost definition;
• bank appraisal procedure;
• current application window; or
• sanction authority for a generally available homestay capital subsidy. Accordingly, no such percentage or amount should be stated publicly.

B. Manipur Tourism Policy 2022 — micro-enterprise/central-scheme policy direction

Official policy statement: §2.17 says central-government subsidy schemes would facilitate accommodation in villages/rural areas and that emphasis would be placed on bringing homestays within micro-enterprises so that existing schemes can be accessed. [S4, PDF p.8, §2.17]

C. RAMP homestay capacity-building activity, 2025

The Directorate's 2025 notification implemented capacity-building workshops for homestay owners and persons interested in establishing/operating homestays under Raising and Accelerating MSME Performance (RAMP). It is evidence of current state/MSME support activity, but the located notice does not establish a capital grant or loan entitlement. [S3, notification No.6/379/2025-DTSM] The notice contemplated district workshops, participant limits and selection, and requested an Udyam registration number “if any”, which is important evidence that the workshop notice itself did not make existing Udyam registration universally mandatory for applicants.

D. Tourism-policy infrastructure incentives

The 2022 policy says incentive schemes would be considered, and refers to possible land/electricity/water facilitation and institutional tourism finance. These are policy intentions, not a homestay owner's automatic entitlement. [S4, PDF p.28, §6.4] The same policy also refers to possible exemptions from legacy taxes such as Luxury Tax/VAT/stamp duties for specific units on a case-by-case basis with Finance Department concurrence. Because this wording uses legacy tax concepts and no current implementing order was located, it must not be advertised as a presently claimable homestay incentive. [S4, PDF p.32, §7.5]

E. Directorate beneficiary condition

S1 states that only establishments registered with the Directorate are eligible for benefits taken up or provided through the Directorate. This is an eligibility gateway, not a guarantee that any benefit exists or will be sanctioned. [S1, Detailed Guideline 22]

F. Udyam

The official Udyam portal presently describes MSME registration as free and paperless and states that no renewal is needed. Udyam should nevertheless be presented as a separate MSME registration, not as a mandatory Tourism-registration document unless a particular tourism application/scheme expressly requires it. [S12]

13 / Business implications

Translate the rules into a workable project

Before selecting or acquiring property

the project team should establish, for the exact parcel:

1. district and local-body/ADC jurisdiction;
2. ownership, co-ownership or lease position;
3. permitted/existing land and building use;
4. whether a residential homestay use is locally accepted;
5. whether the proposed host can satisfy the owner/promoter family-residence test;
6. room/bed feasibility within the 6-room/12-bed limit;
7. plains/hills room-area classification;
8. water/sewerage/fire/access feasibility;
9. lake/forest/heritage/protected-location issues;
10. whether the investment structure requires an entity other than the eligible tourism applicant. A property should not be selected merely because its floor plan can accommodate six bedrooms.

Before construction or renovation

The development team must first identify the competent planning/building authority and determine whether the proposed works require building sanction, planning permission, occupancy/completion approval, fire approval or other NOCs. Tourism S1 is an operational classification checklist, not a construction permit. Thoubal's current bye-laws are a verified example of this separation.

Registration holder versus operating entity

The official material does not establish a general right to separate them for a Homestay. For B&B, the rules expressly recognise an owner/promoter who is absent while a designated agent/operator resides on site. That is materially different from saying a management company may hold the certificate or that an absentee investment vehicle can register a Homestay.

What an LLP or management agreement cannot solve by itself

An LLP agreement, property-management contract, lease, revenue-share contract or caretaker appointment cannot by itself:

• convert an absentee-owner operation into a Homestay;
• establish a company/LLP as eligible registration holder;
• cure an unlawful building use;
• bypass co-owner/title issues;
• replace required police verification;
• expand the six-room/twelve-bed tourism limit; or
• replace FSSAI, foreigner-reporting or local approvals.

Property-development scope

Any development scope offered commercially should be conditional on:

• title/legal due diligence;
• local planning confirmation;
• building and structural review;
• utility feasibility;
• tourism classification feasibility; and
• written clarification where the applicant is a lessee/entity or management structure differs from the resident host.

Property assessment and commercial planning should record

• exact legal owner(s);
• proposed tourism registration holder;
• proposed resident host/family;
• proposed operator;
• employer of staff;
• guest-contracting/invoicing party;
• food-business operator;
• foreign-guest Form III account holder;
• title/lease/consent documents;
• local building-use position;
• current room/bed count and areas;
• grade targeted;
• gap against mandatory classification items;
• local/fire/environmental dependencies;
• tax/FSSAI/Udyam position;
• renewal/termination risk; and
• outstanding written-authority questions.

Questions to answer before business terms are proposed

No commercial ownership percentage, revenue commitment or investment structure should be proposed until it is known:

1. who can lawfully hold Tourism registration;
2. who must reside at the property;
3. whether leasehold premises are acceptable under the intended structure;
4. whether local residential use permits the project;
5. whether construction/renovation is lawfully approvable; and
6. whether an external operator is acceptable without changing the Tourism category.

14 / Official-source conflicts

Resolve conflicting official instructions

Conflict 1 — 2022 Tourism Policy versus formal status of 2014 Tourism Policy

Source A: Manipur Tourism Policy 2022. Source B: Manipur Tourism Policy 2014. The 2022 document is the newer official policy and is currently published by Manipur Tourism. However, at PDF p.35 it says that timelines would be defined for implementation of the “Manipur Tourism Policy, 2014” and reviewed by the Tourism Advisory Committee. An express repeal/supersession clause for the 2014 policy was Not stated in the material reviewed. Status: The official sources are not aligned on formal policy succession. Practical effect: do not rely on a 2014 policy proposition as a current operational homestay rule merely because the file remains online. Use the 2020 detailed Homestay Guidelines for operational classification, supported by their 2025 departmental cross-reference, and seek written Tourism confirmation if a 2014 policy provision materially affects a project. Authority to resolve: Director (Tourism), Manipur / Administrative Department of Tourism.

Conflict 2 — Tourism Homestay residence definition versus Thoubal building-law definition

Source A — S1: Tourism registration is limited to a Homestay where the owner/promoter and family physically reside in the same establishment. Source B — S7: Thoubal building bye-law definition 59 describes Home Stay as paid accommodation within the residential premises of an owner or tenant. The instruments regulate different subjects: S1 regulates Tourism registration/classification; S7 regulates local building/planning matters. S7 therefore cannot safely be used to infer that a tenant qualifies as the Tourism registration holder. Status: The official sources are not aligned for tenant-run tourism eligibility. Affected properties: leased/tenanted premises within Thoubal planning/municipal jurisdiction, and potentially analogous local jurisdictions with similar definitions. Written answer required from: Director (Tourism), Manipur and the relevant municipal/planning authority.

Conflict 3 — Fire-equipment wording within the 2020 Tourism instrument

Source A — Annexure I field 6(h): asks for fire-fighting/hydrant details “if any”. Source B — Annexure II item 23: marks fire extinguisher/fire-fighting facilities M/M/M, mandatory for every grade. Hierarchy/date: same instrument and same application package. Practical reading: Annexure II is the explicit classification checklist and therefore clearly treats fire-fighting facilities as mandatory. But the discrepancy should remain visible because the form wording can mislead applicants and no minimum number/type of extinguisher is specified. Status: wording inconsistency; written specification should be obtained for extinguisher type/number and any separate Fire Service NOC.

Conflict 4 — Current FSSAI order versus stale FSSAI webpage threshold

Source A — S10: 13 March 2026 FSSAI order sets registration up to ₹1.5 crore and expressly supersedes earlier turnover criteria from 1 April 2026. Source B — S11: FSSAI registration information indexed with the older ₹12 lakh petty-food-business threshold. Hierarchy/date resolution: Resolved in favour of S10 because the 2026 order expressly supersedes earlier threshold criteria. Status: official portal content appears stale; not an unresolved legal conflict.

15 / Unresolved questions for the authority

Take the remaining questions to the authority

The following questions are suitable for a written request to the Director (Tourism), Manipur:

1. Current instrument: Is the 27 September 2020 *Common Standards and Guidelines for Establishment/Classification of B&B/Homestay Establishments* still the complete current registration/classification instrument as of September 2026, and have any amendments/corrigenda/SOPs been issued that are not linked on the Homestay webpage?
2. Policy hierarchy: Does the Manipur Tourism Policy 2022 supersede the Manipur Tourism Policy 2014? If so, what notification/order establishes supersession, given the 2022 policy's reference at p.35 to implementation of the 2014 policy?
3. Live portal: What is the exact current online application URL for a new Homestay registration, and is it presently processed through Manipur Tourism, eServices Manipur/E-Pramaan or another system?
4. Portal requirements: What documents, declarations, accepted file types, file-size limits and digital-signature requirements are currently enforced by the live online form but do not appear in the 2020 PDF?
5. Lessee: Annexure I asks for a lease deed where property is leased. May the lessee be the promoter and tourism registration holder for a Homestay if the lessee and family physically reside at the property?
6. Owner signature on leased property: If a lessee may apply, who signs Annexure III, which currently calls for the signature/name of the “owner”?
7. Company/LLP: May a company, LLP or partnership firm hold a Homestay or B&B registration? If yes, how is the Homestay family-residence requirement applied to a legal entity?
8. Corporate owner/individual host: Can a company own the building while an individual resident promoter/host holds the Tourism registration?
9. Professional manager: May a registered Homestay engage a separate professional management company for reservations, housekeeping, marketing, guest communications and staffing while the eligible owner/promoter and family continue to reside there?
10. B&B operator: What documentation and police/background verification are required for the “agent or operator” who must reside at a B&B?
11. Caretaker: Is a resident caretaker capable of being designated as the B&B “agent or operator”, and must the designation be filed with the Directorate?
12. Co-sharer affidavit: What prescribed wording, stamp value, notarisation and signatures are required for the co-sharer affidavit under Annexure I 6(b)?
13. Police certificate validity: How recent must Annexure IV police verification be at original registration and reclassification?
14. Fire: Annexure I says fire-fighting equipment “if any” while Annexure II makes it mandatory for all categories. What minimum equipment/type/quantity is required, and when is a State Fire Service NOC additionally required?
15. Room ceiling: Does the six-room limit apply only to rooms let to guests, or to every bedroom in the building including private family rooms?
16. Separate guest quarter: The current Homestay webpage says guests may stay in a separate quarter while the guideline requires the owner/family to reside in the same “establishment”. How is “same establishment” interpreted where guest rooms are in a detached structure on the same residential parcel?
17. Plains/hills: Which authority/designation determines whether a property is assessed under the “plains” or “hills” room-area standards?
18. Building documents: Are sanctioned-plan, occupancy/completion, property-tax, municipal licence, trade licence or Fire NOC documents currently required by the Tourism portal even though they are not listed in Annexure I?
19. Facility changes: Does the 30-day notification requirement cover only physical facilities or also ownership, lease, operator, legal entity, contact details and room inventory?
20. Sale/succession: What procedure applies where a registered property is sold, inherited, partitioned or transferred during the two-year validity period?
21. Current renewal: Is “reclassification” the current renewal process, and are the published ₹2,500/₹2,000/₹1,000 fees the complete renewal fees?
22. Certificate issue: Is the approved certificate generated electronically and downloadable, or must an applicant collect an order/certificate from the Directorate?
23. Local Tourism contact: Is there a designated district-level Tourism nodal officer for Homestay registration in each district, or should all applications/escalations go to the Director at North AOC?
24. Statistics: Are registered homestays presently required to submit monthly/quarterly occupancy, nationality or room-night statistics?
25. Local tenant definition: For properties in Thoubal, does the Tourism Directorate accept a tenant-based structure consistent with the local building bye-law definition, or does S1's owner/promoter residence rule remain determinative for Tourism registration?