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Photocatalysis is regarded as one of the emerging advanced oxidation techniques to be used towards real time water treatment applications. The photocatalytic process utilizes semiconductor materials for harvesting incident light radiation for water treatment applications. The present abstract demonstrates a simplistic hydrothermal approach towards the synthesis of Ag@AgVO₃/rGO/CeVO₄ composite with in-situ deposited silver nanoparticles with efficient light harvesting properties. The synergizing of rGO with the in-situ deposited silver nanoparticles provided outstanding light utilization efficiency (>75 %) to the as-synthesized material in the visible spectrum. The heterojunction formation within the composite led to efficient separation of the photogenerated charge carriers through multimodal routes achieved through rGO and silver nanoparticles. This novel photocatalyst was applied towards the efficient removal of toxic and environmental pollutants such as phenol and methylene blue. The developed photocatalyst could efficiently remove 87.20 % of methylene blue and 80.27 % phenol under LED light irradiation with a mineralization efficiency of 71.72 %, and 66.43 % respectively for methylene blue and phenol.