Coca-Cola in India: The country's low per capita soda consumption marks it out as a promising soda growth market Coke's largest Indian bottler has blamed officialdom for the 'inordinate delay' it said led it to abandon a newly built $25m bottling line in Uttar Pradesh, but insists it will pursue plans to inaugurate the line elsewhere in the state. Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages blamed delays on approval from India's Central Ground Water Board - to draw more groundwater on the site at Mehdiganj, Varanasi - and financial losses suffered as a result of its inability to upgrade capacity, which it says forced its hand.