Since electric power industries are moving toward reconstruction of the power system, numerous challenges and key problems occur like congestion, operation, pricing, and management. In a power system, infringement of line loading and/or bus voltage limits because of different transactions during any time is called congestion. In the system, congestion might happen uneconomical operation and/or blackouts, a failure of the interconnected system and a disturbance. In the power system, Congestion Management plays a significant function in the operation of secure, economical, and stable operation in promising competitive electricity markets. This article surveys the conventional congestion management techniques for distribution networks using the meta-heuristic approaches in the current research literature. Moreover, it has to turn out to be a significant task in ever-developing challenges and factors that are forcing the development of novel methods. Also, this review discusses the congestion management techniques with diverse system applications are explained. In congestion management, the problems encountered with the roles and tasks of the methodologies are discussed. Several techniques and their compensation level are explained.