Tanning industries are known as one of the most polluting industries causing severe environmental pollution through its effluent discharge (Chandra et al., 2011; Verma and Singh, 2012). The tannery effluent especially originating from tanning processes contains a huge quantity of pollutants including organic matter, phenolics, tannins, and chromium and possesses serious health and environmental threats (Chandra et al., 2011; Bhattacharya et al., 2014). Thus, treatment of tannery wastewater is a prerequisite before discharging it into the environment. The remediation of phenol and Cr (VI) from tannery effluent by using consortium of four bacterial isolates. Inoculated consortium culture along with the indigenous microbes of the wastewater resulted
