The current Indian higher education sysytem has undergone radical changes, thanks to the UGC’s re-orientation and reshapping of Indian eduation policy. It is envisaged that professionally qualified graduates with a sound knowledge of their core disciplines, expertise and training in specific skills will have more openings and opportunities in the science industry and self-employment sectors. In fact, the demand for such professionally trained graduates is on the rise now in the applied fields of almost all basic or core disciplines. To meet this challenge in the changing global scenario, the UGC has introduced and incorporated skill oriented, value added and career – oriented courses in Colleges and Universities to be pursued by students as a parallel sub–discipline while planning their degree level education. The career-oriented programmes offered by the UGC in three stages are: