In the past few decades, restructuring has overtaken all possible domains including the electric supply industry. Restructuring has brought about considerable changes by the virtue of which electricity is now a commodity and has converted into deregulated one. Such a competitive market has paved way for innumerable participants. This has led to overloading and congestion of transmission lines. Moreover, open access transmission network has ingenerated a more intensified problem of congestion. Thus, congestion management in power systems is germane and of central importance to the power industry. In this paper a review work is carried out to unite all the publications in congestion management. © 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd.