Charactrisation of Wastewater from Wazirpur Industrial Area. Foreword The Central Board for the Prevention and control of Water Pollution has got little success in implementing the Pollution control in sma!1 scale industries. The present study of charactization of waste water from different type of industries and also combined waste water from Wazirpur Industrial Area was, therefore, taken to determine amenability of the wastes to treatment so as to persuade the industries to put up treatment units accordingly. The Central Board felt after the study that individual treatment units in small scale industries are difficul and as such proposed combined Effluent treatment Plant for Wazirpur Industrial Area. Cooperation provided during sampling by the M/s Prakash Thread Ball Mill, M/s. Rajasthan Knitting Mills, M/s. Jain Ink Manufacturing Company, M/s. Supreme Electroplaters, m/s. Subhash Chandra and Brothers, M/s. Nice Metal, M/s. Shyam Engineering, M/s. Prem Industry and M/s. Kajlash Metal Works of Wazirpur Industrial Area are duly acknowledged herewith. This project was carried out under the guidance of Dr. R.H. Siddiqi, Consultant to Central Board. The report was also written by Dr. R.H. Siddiqr and assisted by Shri P.M. Ansari,tnvironmental Engineer and Shri R. Chopra, Asstt. Environmental Engineer of the . Central Board. The project was initiated and coordinated byShri P.M. Ansari, Dr. S.D. Makhijani, Sciemist, Coordinated the analytical part of the project. THe team for sampling and analysis comprises of Shri R. Chopra, Shri Paritosh Kumar, Shri D:P. Singh, Shri D.C. Sharma, Shri T.K. Bandhopadhyay, Assistant Environmental Engineer; Shri J.S. Yadav, Technical Assistant and Dr. N,J. Singh, Senior Scientific Assistam. The first draft of the manuscript was typed by Shri Raghubir Singh. The Tracings were prepared by Mrs. Bonya Basu and Shri Kamal Kumar Gupta. Nilay Chaudhuri Chairman,CPCB