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Purpose of the paper- This paper aims in reviewing the existing literature on Models proposed intended to Training needs Assessment (TNA). This review of the literature re-evaluates all strands of the Training Needs Assessment Models. Methodology – Secondary data are sources to conduct the literature review. Suitable search terms were used for carrying out the online search at Proquest, Wiley Online Library, Emerald, EBSCOhost, SCI hub, Shodhganga, Sematic Scholar and Google Scholar and the data are used after a refined filtering. Findings – Cynosure of this paper is reviewing popular twenty nine different models of the Training Needs Assessment proposed from the year 1961 till 2013. It was found that most of the applied TNA models are reactive and do not consider relative factors and levels of analysis, in a proactive method. Practical implications – This paper offers important implications for human resource professionals. This paper ventures to make a conspicuous contribution towards comprehensive concepts in TNA models.