Plankton occupies a significant position in the food web of lentic ecosystem. They play a central role in cycling organic matter in aquatic ecosystem. The abundance of plankton depends on the various hydrological variables. Evaluation of Godavari River Aurangabad District Maharashtra was made assess the quality of water from September-2011 to August- 2012 the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the variation in river water showed high quality of zooplankton population throughout the study period. Rotifers formed dominated group over other group of organism. The present study revealed that the water of River Godavari is contaminated of sewage and other industrial effluents at some stations. The present work reports the zooplankton diversity has been studied in the Godavari River for a period of one year from September-2011 to august-2012. The total number of zooplanktons and monthly average of zooplanktons per liter were recorded. It was noted that the total number of zooplanktons varied from 71 to 190 per lit. At station ῾ A᾽ and 36 to 192 per Lit. At station῾ B `and 68 to 183 per Lit. At station ῾C`
