The sugarcane industry is one of the major water consuming industries. They play a major role in national economical development programmes. India is the second largest producer of sugar in the world. If untreated sugar effluent is discharged into the water bodies, it depletes dissolved oxygen in water and makes the environment unfit for aquatic life and when discharged into the land, decaying soil fertility. Hence an attempt was made to remove the impurities from the effluents.