Eco-Friendly Bioremediation of a Triphenylmethane Dye by Textile Effluent Adapted Bacterial Strain vp-64

Textile industry is providing one of the most basic needs of the people and maintains sustained growth for improving quality of life. The Indian textile industry has been undergoing a rapid transformation and is in the process of integrating with the World textile trade and industry. The contribution of textile industries to the Indian economy is manifested in terms of its contribution to the industrial production, employment generation and foreign exchange earnings. It contributes 20% of industrial production, 9% of excise collections, 18% of employment in the industrial sector, nearly 20% to the country s total export earning and 4% to the gross domestic product. The first synthetic dye, Mauevin was manufactured in the year 1856, since then, more than 1,00,000 new synthetic dyes have been generated (Asad et al., 2007). These dyes were used in different industries, with an annual consumption of about 0.7 million tons worldwide (Chen et al., 2003; Saratale et al., 2006). Synthetic dyes were extensively used in many fields of upto date technology, for example in various branches ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 3 Number 9 (2014) pp. 983-992 http://www.ijcmas.com