Chickpea is worlds third most important pulse crop grown during rabi season. Genetically diverse lines provide ample opportunity to create favourable gene combinations and the probability of producing a unique genotypes increases in proportion to the number of genes by which the parents differ. With this view, genetic diversity analysis of 38 chickpea germplasm accessions were carried out using morphological traits and SSR markers. Out of 34 primers, eleven primers generated 66 polymorphic loci. The average Polymorphic Information Content (PIC) was 50 percent, ranging from 7 - 86 percent. The lowest and the highest PIC values were recorded for primer CaM 1134 (7%) and TR-18, CaM68 (86%), respectively. At 30 % dissimilarity morphological dendogram grouped 38 genotypes into two main clusters whereas molecular dendogram grouped 38 genotypes into five clusters. The study proved that molecular markers being free from environmental influence can complement traditional methods in resolving higher genetic diversity, germplasm characterization as well as in obtaining specific molecular markers for varietal identification and differentiation in chickpea