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Over the last decades systematic Academic and administrative Reforms had been initiated in Higher Education. Following the Gnanam Committee recommendation, Conventional annual system has been replaced with Semester system. Further semester system has been reconfigured with choice based credit system. The University Grants Commission has announced that from 2015, all the Universities and Higher Education Institutions will have followed the Choice Based Credit System. The imperatives behind the initiatives are to cope with the 21" Century changing Knowledge landscape and to set at par with global standard. Many empirical studies show that even after graduation there is skill gap particularly Communication skill resulting many youthunemployable. Further syllabus of Higher Education was not up-to-date. There was not scope of flexibility in choice of courses and no scope of student mobility. Evaluation system was not continuous and comprehensive. Skill Component courses are minimal in the existing course curriculum. Against this backdrop CBCS system has been introduced with noble focus on learner-centric method, interdisciplinary approach, emphasis on skill based courses, flexibility of courses and student mobility:.This paper is an attempt to study issues and challenges that confront in practical implementation of CBCS.