Vol. 9, Issue 10, Part A (2023)

Small scale nickel electroplating industries are widely spread throughout India. Nickel electroplating is one of the oldest coating and plating process widely used in out the world and quiet popular particularly in aviation to telecommunication industries. This process being a low cost process is highly preffered for coating purposes. The effluents from small scale nickel electroplating industry is quiet harmful to the health of living organisms; plants, animals and human beings and the environment as it contains high concentrations of nickel i.e. beyond the permissible limits set by WHO and EPA. In the present paper an attempt has been made to investigate the effluents physico-chemically from small scale nickel electroplating industries situated in Sangrur district of Punjab. The results thus obtained have also been correlated with the toxic effects of the constituents of the industrial effluents on the plants, animal, human beings and environment.