12^th Institute Research Council (IRC) meeting of ICAR-NIASM was held on June 15-16, 2022. Dr Himanshu Pathak, Director, NIASM chaired the meeting. Dr M Maheshwari, Former Head, Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-CRIDA; Dr Pradip Dey, Principal Scientist and PC (STCR), ICAR-IISS, Bhopal; Dr M S Meena, Principal Scientist, ICAR-ATARI, Jodhpur and Dr S K Das, Principal Scientist, ICAR-IVRI participated the meeting as resource persons in different disciplines in person. Dr N P Sahu, Joint Director, CIFE, Mumbai and Dr S R Gadakh, Director Research, MPKV Rahuri participated online. Dr Pathak briefed the achievement of the institute during the year. The action taken report of 11^th IRC recommendations was presented by Dr Jagadish Rane. The achievements of the Schools were presented by Head of the respective Schools followed by presentation of Flagship, Umbrella and In-house projects by respective principal investigators. All the experts have put their suggestion for improvement of all the projects. Dr M Maheshwari empathised and encourage the scientists for advance research for management of abiotic stress in plants and plant field phenomics. Dr Pradip Dey appreciated the scientists of NIASM for conducting cutting-edge research that has resulted in high-quality publications. Dr Sahu appreciated the research conducted by scientist for management of abiotic stress in fisheries. Dr Das encouraged and appreciated the scientists for animal science research. Dr Meena emphasized the importance of extension activities and involvement of NIASM in social science research. The field visit was conducted on June 16, 2022, where all the scientists explained their field research. The meeting ended with vote of thanks by Dr Neeraj Kumar.