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ABSTRACT: PURPOSE: To study and compare the efficacy of peri bulbar anaesthesia with para bulbar anaesthesia in patients undergoing manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS). METHODS: Two hundred patients were randomized to peri bulbar and para bulbar groups. All surgeries were performed by same surgeons. Pain during administration of anaesthesia, 1 hour after surgery and 6 hours after surgery was graded on a visual analogue pain scale and compared for both the techniques. The ocular akinesia after anaesthesia was compared for both the techniques. RESULTS: There was no significant difference in pain between both the groups during anaesthesia, 1hour after anaesthesia and 6 hours after anaesthesia. There was no significant difference in the ocular akinesia between both the groups. CONCLUSION: Subtenon's technique for administration of anaesthesia during MSICS is as safe and effective as the peri bulbar technique giving equally good analgesia during and after the surgery.