MCJ students from MANUU land jobs

Hyderabad: The on-line admissions into Master of Mass Communication and Journalism and Ph.D. Course at Maulana Azad National Urdu University will be closing on May 27, according to Dean Faculty of Masscom and Journalism Numerous students who have passed out of the Department of MCJ have found jobs, not only in media houses that serve through Urdu but also those have been working in other languages.

‘The Department is slowly coming of age and proving that Urdu as a medium of instruction is certainly not a barrier.

The intake of students is mostly from weak socio-economic background but they have done wonderfully well for themselves. Making them market ready is a challenge the department has accepted’, says Prof. Khan.

The Department of MC&J at MANUU was established in 2004 but is taking sure steps in creating a niche for itself. It is well equipped with modern infrastructure to provide students with training in Electronic and Print Media. Students

of the department get hands on access to Video Studio, Audio Studio, associated control rooms, and a comprehensive postproduction facility by way of audio and video edit suits, teleprompter, computer graphics and animation. The department also boasts of 15 high-end graphic workstations with sophisticated software for the usage of 2D & 3D animations at its Graphic & Animation Lab. The Print Lab has 14 high-end computers to publish the in-house Journal Izhaar produced and edited by the students themselves.

Associate Professor Mohammad Fariyad has revealed that recently the Directorate of Audio-Visual Publicity (DAVP) has offered internships to the students in New Delhi.

Professor Shafey Kidwai, chairman, Dept of Mass Communication, AMU, Aligarh says that ‘employers are apprehensive about the aviability of Urdu as a language of mass communication but a beginning has been made. Let’s

not forget film scripts and screenplays for the Hindi film industry are majorly written in Urdu even today’.