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In the present investigation a total 30 linseed genotypes including released varieties were evaluated during Rabi 2022-2023 at C.S.A Agriculture Research Station, Kanpur, U.P for understanding genetic diversity for grain yield and its component traits using principal component analysis. Study of genetic diversity is the process by which physiological data, agronomic performance data, biochemical data, and variation among individuals or groups of individuals more recently molecular (DNA-base) data. Genetic analysis can be assessed using morphological characteristics and or molecular markers. The availability of several DNA marker has increased the efficiency of genetic diversity analysis as they are reliable and unaffected by environmental factors. Genetic diversity is important because it helps species adapt to environmental changes, which can help them survive. It also helps to prevent inbreeding and disease epidemics. Genetic diversity helps plant breeders to develop new improved cultivars with desirable characteristics. Genetic diversity helps to develop climatic - resilient varieties. Thirty genotypes were grouped into six cluster. Cluster I constituted maximum number of genotypes followed by cluster III, Cluster II, Cluster V, Cluster IV and Cluster VI. Suggested that the genotypes from these cluster may use hereafter be as a parent for future hybridization programme to obtain heterotic recombinants or even transgressive segregants.