English

The Department of English was established with the establishment of the College itself in 1991. Compulsory English is taught as a subject to undergraduate students through this department. Dr. Ajiet Ravikant Jachak has been the sole Faculty in this department since 1997. Besides traditional lecture method and other teaching methodologies, PPT presentations and other audio-visual aids are also taken help of to facilitate the students understand the subject better. Unit tests and periodic tests are conducted besides oral examinations to assess the students’ progress. The department has so far produced a number of teachers, advocates, corporators besides a doctorate in English in the form of Dr. Pargat Singh Bawra. Although the results of the department haven’t been so encouraging barring final year results, they were always better than the University results.

Dr. Jachak was awarded Ph.D. in March 2015 by Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur. The title of his thesis was A Critical Evaluation of Nirad C. Chaudhuri. He also has book to his credit – Step up II: Improve your English, which has been prescribed by the University as a textbook for B.A. II in the subject Compulsory English since 2015-16. He is also the Advisory Editor of “Cyber Literature International Online Journal in Literature, Humanities and Communication Technologies” (a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed, open access UGC listed journal) from 2016. Presently he is an elected Senate Member and a Member of the Board of Studies in English of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur from November 2017 as well as a nominated Member of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University of Social Science, Mhow, district Indore (Madhya Pradesh). He is a recognized P.G. teacher and Supervisor for Ph.D. by RTMNU.