The establishment of Department of Urdu is as old as the University itself. The Department took a start to offer Teaching of Urdu to Foreigners. Beside this, script writing for Radio/TV programmes was also the responsibility Department of Urdu. Before the establishment of Editing Cell in the University, all the courses of university were edited by the Department. The course "Daftri Urdu"دفتری اردو meant to introduce Urdu as an official language, first of all was offered by the department. Since its establishment, Department of Urdu is playing a vital role for the introduction of Urdu as a compulsory subject. The department is offering Urdu courses/programmes at various levels i.e. from Matric to Ph.D level. To promote the effective teaching of literature, the department has started to arrange seminars and workshops with the collaboration of external agencies. In these seminar/workshops, teachers of different colleges are invited to participate. Now the department has adopted this activity permanently every year. The sole purpose is to prepare efficient teachers for teaching Urdu language and literature.