The phenol degrading strains were isolated based on their phenol degrading ability by enrichment technique. 10 best phenol degrading strains shown in Fig. 1 were selected and used in different combination for the development of consortium. The percentage phenol degradation by different consortia is as shown in Table 2. A consortium containing F1, F3, F4, F6 and F7 strains showed 98.5% phenol degradation and designated as CF1. Further studies were carried out using CF1 for estimating its phenoldegrading efficacy.