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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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