One of the major reasons for surface water pollution is indiscriminate disposal of untreated and partially treated disposal of industrial effluent. Industries need to make sure that their ETP is running efficiently and effluent quality is conforming to ECR 1997. But most of the ETPs’ do not have the equipment, laboratory and expertise for measuring water quality parameters. They need to send samples to laboratories from time to time, which is costly and time consuming. Because of not having continuous data of the quality of effluent on site, engineers are usually unable to identify the reasons for ETP malfunction, therefore, fail to take adequate measures quickly. Moreover, they cannot optimize the units of operation including chemical dosing and retention time which hamper cost effectiveness. Sometimes, inability to maintain required effluent quality leads to strict punitive measures by the DoE. Besides, it becomes difficult for the authority to monitor all the industries as there is no continuous monitoring system. Not to mention, manual investigation is not enough to force all industries to maintain effluent quality.