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The invention relates to an aerobic process for the reduction of colour from paper pulp effluent using inoculum. More particularly, this invention relates to a process for the preparation of inoculum of the strain of accession no. MTCC 5099, and a process for the reduction of colour from pulp mill effluent using the above said inoculum, which comprises steps of inoculating appropriate aliquots of the pulp and paper mill effluent with the cell slurry obtained, as claimed in claim 2, for colour reduction studies along with a control flask set up in step (a) at 37°C/100 rpm for 48 hours, withdrawing samples from the above flasks in 50ml aliquots and processing them for assessing colour and total lignin levels analysing the colour removal efficiency of the above said bacterium.