The Indian Railways is planning to set up a water treatment and bottling plant at the base of Malang Hills at Ambernath in Maharashtra.

The proposed plants will be run by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) who plans to bring out Rail Neer, the packaged purified drinking water within a year. The corporation plans to manufacture 5 lakh bottles per day from the Ambernath plant. It will source water for the plant from a reservoir which is popularly known as GIP(Great Indian Peninsula) Railway Tank in Ambernath.

The IRCTC has chosen two sites for the setting up water treatment and bottling plant. One of them is Ambernath and the other site is at Palur in Kancheepuram district of Tamil Nadu. The IRCTC has already appointed Actuate Management Consultants for techno economic feasibility study of the water treatment plants at Ambernath and Palur. The IRCTC will start working out the details of cost and funding pattern after getting the feasibility report. Thereafter, tenders will be floated to appoint architects and construction contractors. The existing plants are at Danapur (Bihar) and Najafgarh (Delhi).