Eighteen diverse genotypes of chilli were evaluated for mean, range, variability, heritability, genetic advance, correlation coefficient and path analysis studies for fourteen quantitative and two quality characters, at Vegetable Research Farm, Division of Vegetable Science & Floriculture, SKUAST, Jammu during the year 2013. Analysis of variance showed significant variation for all the characters studied. Highest phenotypic coefficient of variation (PCV) i. e., 90.04 and genotypic coefficient of variation (GCV) i. e., 83.97 was observed for total number of fruits per plant. Maximum heritability (broad sense) was observed for ascorbic acid (99.50) followed by average fruit weight (97.40). Genetic advance as percentage of mean was observed maximum for total number of fruits per plant (161.33). The traits viz. total number of fruits per plant, average fruit weight, capsaicin percentage and fruit yield per plant gave high heritability, genetic advance and GCV indicating that these are controlled by additive gene action and could be improved by direct selection. In general genotypic correlation coefficients were higher in magnitude than phenotypic ones. Fruit yield per plant showed negative and significant correlation with days to 50 % flowering, days to fruiting, capsaicin percentage and ascorbic acid while positive significant correlation was observed for all the remaining characters except for stalk length at genotypic level and number of seeds per fruit at phenotypic level. Total number of fruits per plant (0.401) gave highest positive direct effect followed by average fruit weight (0.324).