Required Documents to Start a

Mineral Water Plant

In India

First Let’s clarify what is “Mineral Water”, “Packaged Drinking Water” ….

Though Colloquially we call it as “Mineral Water”, it is actually “Packaged Drinking
Water” as per the BIS Standard is 14543. But all common purpose it is Bottled
water. If you want to know more about Mineral Water, you can read this Article.

However we will discuss about the packaged drinking water. The documents
required can be classified in to some major categories mentioned below:

1. Documents related to local Industrial Licensing :

This includes your SSI registration, shop act license & other place related &
business related licenses. They can be had from local authorities. A list of
documents is already published on “Documents”
http://mineralwaterprojectinformation.org/required-documents/ Page.

2. Product Specific Documents :

As packaged drinking water has to be valid under ISI ; the BIS [BUREAU OF
INDIAN STANDARDS] (http://www.bis.org.in/index.asp) has made some
detailed Norms. :You can refer the BIS Site to have detailed look. Otherwise we
also offer a collection of handful important Links [Monthly updated] with our
Training Course ( http://mineralwaterprojectinformation.org/Course/)

3. Intellectual property Documents :

This includes trade mark, Patent etc. They can be had from authorized
attorneys appointed for this purpose. The most important will be the
Trademark as far your Packaged Drinking Water Plant is Concerned. You can
just google on “trademark site” for :-
Searching the availability of the name
Regulations
Frequesntly Asked Questions
Status of application
Available agents & much more .

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4. Bank Documents :
If your going for finances you will need to approach various bank or financial
Institute. Who will give you finance for them you need separate documents.
The basic document will be the project report. Though every project report will
be “ for that project only “ still many of the elements are common. We are

offering a free Project report for download (http://mineralwaterprojectinformation.org/preport/).

5. Project Documents :
Besides all documents we discussed above, you will need your own documents.
Let us call them “project documents”. They can be planning sheets, layouts,
third party agreements, Site report, Supplier quotes & many other. These all
documents will be necessary for you to keep a track of things to be executed in
time.

Most important is to get educated in Project Planning & Execution. Here

you can save your precious time by using some veteran’s experience. You can see
the contents of a training course specially designed for budding entrepreneurs
willing to venture into the packaged drinking water business.

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