Synopsis The UGC Model Curriculum has bee produced to take care of the lacuna, defects/shortcomings in the existing curricula in certain universities, to develop a new model curriculum aiming to produce the one which is compatible and in tune with recent development in the subject, to provide a multi disciplinary profile and to allow a flexible cafeteria like approach including initiating new papers to cater for frontier development in the concerned subject. The recommendation of the curriculum development as it was meant to reinforce this, the purpose of the exercise has been to provide a broad common framework for exchange, mobility and from dialogue across an Indian academic community.