The present investigation was carried out on chickpea germplasm lines representing minicore collection obtained from ICRISAT, Hyderabad (A.P) for assessing genetic variability under three environments. Considerably high variability was observed for most of the productivity related traits in E3 (irrigated 2005-06). Over all the environments, genotype ICC 6279 was found to be early flowering. For seed yield per plant, ICC 13124 was the only top yielder in all the three environments. The genotype ICC 13124 was found promising for earliness, large seed size and high yield per plant in all the environments suggesting that this accession is best suited for both rainfed and irrigated condition during the rabi season.