Fifty rice genotypes were evaluated for leaf blast disease reaction, mean performance, variability, and othergenetic parametersof yield and yield attributing traits. The genotypes were scored for disease reaction under field conditionand data on eight quantitative traits were recorded on five randomly selected plants from each plot.Results showed thatnone of the genotypes was found to be highly resistant or resistant to leaf blast while 26 entries showed moderatelyresistant reaction. The promising line IET-23594 produced maximum grain yield (5667 kg/ha) followed by existing cultivarKPR-1 (5607 kg/ha). Analysis of variance revealed highly significant sum of squares due to genotypes for all the charactersindicating existence of ample variability among the genotypes. The estimates of PCV were higher than the GCV indicatinghigh influence of environment on the expression of the traits. The characters such as straw yield (96.04, 67.18), 100 seedweight (95.68, 37.34) and number of spikeletsper panicle(89.71, 45.48) showed high heritability coupled with high tomoderate genetic advance as percent of mean, suggesting that selection of these traits would be effective for their improvement.