The 36th meeting of Academic Council of SKUAST-Kashmir was held under the Chairmanship of Vice-Chancellor Prof Nazeer Ahmed.All the Statutory members, Directors, Deans, Heads of Divisions and nominees from other Universities attended the meeting. During the meeting, various academic matters were deliberated upon and intake capacity for admission to various undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes for the academic session 2017 was approved. Among other major academic matters, 5th Deans Committee Recommendations, API Score Card for selection to various faculty positions under direct recruitment, Accreditation of SKUAST-K by ICAR, Implementation of UGC Regulations-2016 and rationalization of teaching staff were discussed and adopted. Syllabi for newly instituted Masters/Ph. D Degree programmes were also approved. Various matters that had been discussed and referred by statutory bodies of Subject Matter Faculties also came up for discussions. Practical manual of Principles of Genetics and theoretical manual of Principles of Plant Breeding published by Division of Genetics and Plant Breeding were also released on the occasion.