Established in 1942, the Department of Urdu is one of the premier and oldest departments of the Amar Singh College. The Department has remained focus of activities with regard to the development of Urdu language which stands constitutionally an official language under schedule 8 of constitution of Jammu and Kashmir since 1889. Since department of Urdu emerges as the key department in the faculty of arts, a huge number of students prefer to opt Urdu subject as the Core subject with the motivation that Urdu subject has better prospectus in terms of job & employment. Being one of the official language of UT most of the record in the offices like revenue, police etc. is recorded in Urdu; hence job opportunities are better than other subjects. Scores of students have graduated with Urdu as one ...read more