A wide range of microorganisms present in industrial effluent, exposed to different heavy metals, develop tolerance to such metal. Adaptation to the adverse environmental condition make them resistant to different antibiotics and various characters exhibited by them need to be explored. Twenty numbers of bacteria isolated from the effluent of a steel plant showed tolerance to heavy metals like Ni, Cr, Cd, Pb, and Hg and resistance to different antibiotics. | Plant growth promoting traits exhibited by metal tolerant bacterial isolates of industrial effluent
