Dr. S. K. Chaudhari, ADG (S&WM), NRM, ICAR and Dr. S. K. Ambast, Director, ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar reviewed the progress and achievements of eight major themes under "Agri-Consortia Research Platform on Water" project of ICAR during 2018-2019 on 7th December, 2018 at ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar. The PIs and CCPIs of all the research projects from twenty five different Institutes/ Universities presented their technical and financial progress of the projects during first six months of FY 2018-2019 in this meeting. ADG (S&WM) expressed satisfaction to all the PIs and CCPIs for their performance in the projects and emphasized the need for further strengthening the research methodology with data recording and analysis to come up with new scientific information, protocols and guidelines in the field of agricultural water management. Dr. Ambast stressed on the better ways of presentation of the results and documentation of the information generated under different themes of the project. Two technical brochures published under the project were released in the meeting. Dr. P. Panigrahi, Senior Scientist presented the vote of thanks.