In the present investigation, an attempt has been made to evaluate the genetic variability of yield contributing characters, and the genetic diversity in fifty one genotypes and one check variety Arka Anamika of okra collected from the IIHR, Bangalore, India. Analysis of variance indicated significant differences among the genotypes for different morphological characters. The phenotypic variances for all the thirteen characters were found to be higher than the genotypic variances. High GCV and PCV were observed for yield per plant, no. of fruits per plant, no. of seeds per fruit, average fruit weight. High heritability coupled with high GAM were observed for almost all the characters studied, except days to 50% flowering and days to 80% maturity, which shows low heritability with low GAM. The yield per plant, plant height and no. of seeds per fruit showed high genetic advance that helped in effective and reliable selection through these characters for crop improvement. On the basis of K clustering method, the genotypes were grouped into eight groups. The Group I was the largest with twelve genotypes followed by Group VII and II with eleven, ten genotypes respectively and cluster mean values for 15 different characters estimated.