Strengths
1. Permanent faculty
2. Highly qualified faculty,three have doctorates and the three who have M,Phil are pursuing doctoral programmes on part-time basis.
3. Non – transferable job
4. Rich collection of Books, references to support any new initiative
5. Language lab fully equipped to cater to all relevant language courses.
6. Majority of the teaching members have been teaching and counseling postgraduate programmes and at different institutions, including Distance Mode Program of University of Kashmir and IGNOU.
Weaknesses
1. Ratio of Student Teacher is disproportionate.
2. Large number of Students in each Class.
3. Paucity of space and less number of teachers to cater to the ever burgeoning demand for learning English.
4. To address this demand, the vacant teaching positions should be filled at the earliest.
5. A rich Departmental Library is needed.
Opportunities
1. The Department can introduce language Programmes/job oriented courses, making optimum use of language lab.
2. The Department canintroduce BA Honours English as PG English is already functional.
3. The Department can organize and coordinate orientation and refresher courses for otherfaculty members in degree colleges
4. The Department can organize workshops and seminars on state and national level.
5. The Department has well equipped languages lab and can train students for job in corporate sector.
Challenges
1. Finding funding agencies for conducting programmes like State and National level seminars.
2. The outreach activities like co-coordinating with the Schools which the College administration has recently adopted, is an additional burden on the Department, in absence of a large permanent faculty.
3. For the introduction of new courses, there is a paucity of space. The construction underway for creating more classrooms has to be executed on a war footing basis.
4. For purchase of National and International Journals, the funding agencies and sources are to be created.