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The process of industrialisation begun in the 1760s in Britain. As we all know, the world had developed a lot since the ages of industrialisation and it marked with a change in the social and economic phenomena but at the same time new problems are arising with the industrial growth such as rising greenhouse gas, emissions, air pollution and water pollution, desertification and chemicals pollution, the erosion of the top soil had led to extreme pressure on the environment and impoverishes the population by destroying its natural resource base. Industrialisation in Assam dates back with the establishment of tea, coal, oil refineries and plywood industries leading to economic growth and development of the state. BCPL plant was set up in Dibrugarh district and came as a part of the historic Assam Accord signed on 15th August, 1985 with the motive of overall socio-economic development of the region, but with the operation of BCPL plant there have also been some negative effect arising such as environmental pollution and various types of difficulties and problems are faced by the people residing in nearby BCPL plant areas. The main objective of this paper is to look over/evaluate the negative effects of environmental degradation which are faced by the workers and nearby villagers due to the setting up of this plant.