“…However, it is also a major source of environmental pollution due to the discharge of huge volume of potentially toxic and hazardous wastewater into the receiving water body, which negatively affect societies (Dixit et al, 2015;Montalvão et al, 2017;Chowdhary et al, 2018). The wastewater discharged from leather industries are characterized by high pH, chemical oxygen demand (COD), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total dissolved solids (TDS), chromium, sulfate, phosphate, chloride and highly toxic organic pollutants that makes the wastewater unfit for irrigation and poses serious damage to plants and human being (Kumari et al, 2016;Bharagava and Mishra, 2018). In India, there are more than 2500 tanneries, of these, nearly 80% are based on chrome tanning process which account for 15% of the total worldwide leather production (Shukla et al, 2009;Chandra et al, 2011).…”