Background Laparoscopic surgery has led to many changes in the management of surgical patients and significantly reduced the incidence of complications associated with open surgical procedures 1. At present, laparoscopic hernia repair has gained clinical significance in patients with bilateral or recurrent hernia. 2 Objectives The aim of this study is to compare open hernioplasty and laparoscopic hernia repair in unilateral non recurrent inguinal hernia. The present study will be performed on 30 patients to compare the effectiveness of laparoscopic hernia repair and open hernioplasty and to assess the intra operative and post-operative complications, duration of surgery, hospital stay, postoperative morbidity, recurrence and patient satisfaction. Patients and Methods . Comparative studies on 30 patients were classified according the type of operative technique into 2 groups: Group A patients underwent laparoscopic technique (15 patients), group B patients underwent open technique (15 patients) to evaluate and compare the open and laparoscopic techniques in unilateral non recurrent inguinal hernia repair as regard operative time,post operative pain, hospital stay, urine retention, parathesia, numbness, seroma,, wound infection and recurrence Results Our study revealed highly significant increase in operative time in laparoscopic group; compared to open group of patients; with highly significant statistical difference (p value < 0.0001), highly significant decrease in post-operative pain score in laparoscopic group; compared to open group of patients; with highly significant statistical difference. (p value = 0.00434),highly significant decrease in postoperative hospital stay in laparoscopic group; compared to open group of patients; with highly significant statistical difference. (p value = 0.000003), significant decrease in post operative parathesia and numbness in laparoscopic group; compared to open group of patients; (p value =0.000414),highly significant decrease in post-operative urine retention in laparoscopic group; compared to open group of patients; with highly significant statistical difference (p value= 0.000267). Conclusion The laparoscopic technique is superior to the open technique of tensionfree repair, in terms of immediate post-operative complications and delayed pain and paresthesia also in terms of safety.