Endophytes promote plant growth through phytohormone production, acquisition of nutrients, nitrogen fixation and help them to survive under various biotic and abiotic stress conditions. In this study, we isolated and investigated 58 endophytic bacteria for their ability to promote plant growth in vitro by testing organic acid, ammonia, HCN and siderophore production, phosphate solubilization and Indole 3 acetic acid (IAA) biosynthesis. All isolates were producing IAA in the range of 4.40-110 μg ml-1. Most of the isolates produced ammonia, while 50% isolates were organic acid producers, 40% of isolates produced HCN and 21 isolates from both the crops solubilized phosphate. On the basis of 16S rDNA sequence efficient isolates were identified as Pantoea agglomerans (CPHN2), Bacillus cereus strain (CPHN4), Bacillus sonorensis strain (CPHN12), Bacillus subtilis strain (CPHR3), Pseudomonas chlororaphis strain (PHN9), Ornithinibacillus sp. (PHN14), Ochrobactrum sp. (PHR6). In this study, Ornithinibacillus sp. has been reported as pea endophyte for the first time to best of our knowledge. Under pot conditions, CPHN2, CPHN4, CPHN12, CPHR3 were able to increase root and shoot growth parameters of chickpea plant by 1.3-1.9 times, CPHN3 was most efficient and able to increase dry root weight by 3 times. The isolates PHN9, PHN14, PHR6 increased root length by 2.49 times, 2.8 times and 1.6 times respectively. Overall, the results suggested that the isolated and characterized endophytes possessed multiple plant growth promoting traits, increased the plant growth parameters in pot conditions, therefore can be further explored as bioinoculants/biofertilizers in field evaluation.