This study was conducted at a tertiary care eye hospital to evaluate and compare the two techniques of sutureless cataract surgeries which are manual small incision cataract surgery and phacoemulsification with rigid posterior chamber intraocular lens with respect to surgically induced astigmatism, operative and postoperative complications and best corrected visual acuity at the end of 8 weeks. The study was carried out on 100 patients who were divided into 2 groups with group A undergoing MSICS with rigid PCIOL and group B undergoing phacoemulsification with rigid PCIOL. Postoperative evaluation was done till 3 months. The mean surgically induced astigmatism in group A was higher than that in group B. Operative complications were seen in 6% of group A as compared to 8% in group B. The overall postoperative complication rate in the study was 8%. Hence, both the surgeries have almost similar outcome in terms of final visual acuity, astigmatism and complications.