A field experiment was conducted at M.S. Swaminathan School of Agriculture, Bagusala farm, Gajapati district, Odisha during the summer season of 2020 to assess the comparative efficacy of herbicides and hand weeding in managing weeds and improve productivity of irrigated summer finger millet (Eleusine coracana L. Gaertn.). The pre-emergence herbicide application (PE) of pendimethalin 500 g/ha or oxadiargyl 80 g/ha PE at 3 days after transplanting (DAT) followed by post-emergence application (PoE) of ethoxysulfuron 12 g/ha or bispyribac- sodium 20 g/ha at 20 DAT were found to be equally effective as hand weeding twice at 20 and 40 DAT in effectively managing weeds and improving the productivity of finger millet.