Correlation studies indicated that for improvement in rice grain yield, the intensive selection on the positive side should be made for grains per panicle and spikelet fertilitysince these traits showed significantly positive correlation with seed yield and also among themselves. Panicles per plant, panicle length and grain weight though had positively non-significant correlation with grain yield also be utilized for improvement of yield. Partioning through path coefficient analysis revealed that grains per panicle played an important role in the improvement of grain yield in rice.