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Beautiful colours of cloths are always preferred by today's generation. Textile industries are using synthetic dyes to prepare different coloured materials and these dyes are prepared from various compounds having carbon and nitrogen bonding such as -C=C, -N=N- and -C=N-. The azo dyes constitute largest group among them. After the use of these dyes in the industries, about 30-40% of dye content goes in effluent thus making waterbodies polluted. The treatment of dye effluents by various methods have been studies by many workers from time to time such as physico-chemical methods, adsorption, flocculation, ion exchange membrane filtration, reverse osmosis, these methods are not efficient because of their high cost which are not affordable, thereby keeping the effluents untreated most of the times. The microbes are efficient in decolourizing/ degradation of these dye effluents as compared with other methods, because of their cost effectiveness and environment friendliness. The thermophilic fungi are known to survive at high temperature environments there by producing the thermostable enzymes to withstand in elevated temperatures. Further, a variety of thermophilic microbial strains have been demonstrated to be useful in degrading dyes catalysed by various thermostable enzymes. In the present study attempts were made to assess the ability of thermophilic fungus Rhizomucor pusillus to adsorb the dyes. Two dyes, viz. Methyl violet and Basic fuchsin were selected. Maximum dye adsorption was observed in lower concentrations of dyes i.e. 1-5 ppm and at higher concentrations the adsorption was reported to be lesser. Fungi offer a promising solution for the treatment of dye-contaminated wastewater. Their ability to efficiently adsorb dyes, coupled with their sustainability and cost-effectiveness, makes them a valuable tool in environmental remediation efforts. Textile industrial effluents containing dyes is matter of great attention now a days as this activity adds more and more dyes in water bodies.