During the past two decades, several decolourization techniques have been reported, few of which have been accepted by industries. Thus, there is a need to find alternative cost-effective and efficient treatments to remove dyes and colorants from effluents. Among the different methods to
treat effluents, the advantage of biological treatments over certain physico chemical treatment methods is that over 70% of the organic material present may be converted to biosolids. In this aspect, numerous bacteria capable of dye decolourization have been reported