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Municipal solid waste is the very big menace for the environment. Due to rapid increase of human population, urbanization and the industrialization leads to the solid waste accumulation. Solid waste is usually managed through land filling and incineration processes. But both of these methods cause environmental pollution. Hence researchers are seeking alternate option to mitigate the solid waste pollution. In view of the above issues, the present study is focused to control and manage the municipal organic solid waste through biological way. In this present study the bacterial strains were isolated from the municipal waste land filling sites and the effective strains are identified and used to prepare selective bacterial consortium. The consortium with selective bacterial species were activated with two different sugar industry materials namely; (i) jaggery and (ii) molasses. The bacterial consortium activated with two different sources were sprayed on municipal organic waste at different quantity. After the sufficient time interval the biodegraded materials were harvested and subjected to physico chemical analysis. The result revealed that the municipal organic waste degraded by selective bacterial consortium (SBC) activated with molasses have high nutritive value and it degraded the waste effectively when compare to SBC activated with jaggery. The biodegraded waste subjected to seed germination assay to find out the phyto toxic effect of the biodegraded materials. The findings of phyto toxic assay proved that the SBC activated with molasses was effective one to biodegrade the organic waste quickly and efficiently and there was no phyto toxicity in that product. Hence we could recommend this product as an organic supplement to enhance the plant growth.