M. Rathia, S. Kar, R.R. Kanwar, N.C. Mandavi, G.Thakur, V.Dansena Rice, seedling vigour, variability, heritability, correlation 2-7 9 (1) 2025 January, 2025 Seedling vigour is important agronomical traits and contributor to subsequent tillering quality and yield of rice. Crop stand is dependent on the seedling vigour. For higher grain yield, good crop stand is equally important along with high yield potential. Therefore the present study was carried out to explore the genetic variability and correlation among eleven seedling vigour related traits in thirty-three rice genotypes including three checks viz., Narendra 359, Karma mahsuri and IGKVR 1244, at S.G. College of Agriculture and Research Station, Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, India. High heritability was found for all the eleven seedling vigour traits. Highest seedling vigour-I at 14^th day was recorded for Narendra 359 followed by R2699-31-1, R2326-108-1-61-1 and R2737-25-1. High heritability coupled with high GAM was recorded for root/shoot ratio at 7^th day, shoot length at 14^th day, shoot length at 7^th day and root/shoot ratio at 14th day. The findings from the character association analysis revealed that seedling vigour index-I at 14^th day showed high positive significant association with characters like germination percentage, shoot length at 14^th day, root length at 14^th day and seedling height at 14^th day. Further, these promising genotypes can be used in future breeding programme.