The present work deals with variability, correlation, path-coefficient and selection index for eleven quantitative characters in chickpea. Variability of the studied characters exhibited that they were quantitative in nature and under polygenic control. For all the characters phenotypic variation was greater than those of environmental components of variation. Phenotypic coefficients of variability (PCV) in general were higher than the estimates of genotypic coefficient of variability (GCV) for all the characters, which suggested that the apparent variation is not only due to the genotypes...