BA in English literature college Warora Chandrapur, BA Colleges in warora

About English Department

Shraddheya Baba Amte, the renowned social worker and the recipient of numerous national and international awards and honours, was a tireless crusader against all odds, and a champion of the rights of leprosy afflicted, orthopedically handicapped, visually impaired, hearing and speech crippled, and the abandoned. In order to find ways for the rehabilitation of these marginalized people, Baba founded a charitable trust – ‘Maharogi Seva Samiti’ (MSS) – in 1950, and started his work on a rather hostile wilderness area at the outskirts of the then Warora town, a place later named Anandwan – ‘Forest of joy’ – by the famous Marathi litterateur late P. L. Deshpande.

The opening of Anand Niketan College, on June 20, 1964, was Baba’s another step towards the larger social welfare and rural upliftment. The present premises of Anand Niketan College is an example of Anandwan’s realization of the ideal of recasting the hidden energy of the most neglected into potential use, as the buildings of the college were erected through the labours of the lepers and the crippled inmates of Anandwan. Since then, the college has been functioning as a torchbearer of the advancement of knowledge, awareness, progress and, the facilitator of quality education for the rural and economically weaker youths of the region,

The department of English came into being on 20th June 1964, and has an illustrious history of the distinguished scholars and academicians who have worked either as lecturers and professors in the department, or were its scholarly students. The strong foundation of the department was laid by Prof. Dr. K. K. Reddy, with his student-centric teaching abilities and love of research and publication. ‘SESAME’, an anthology of English prose, edited by Dr. K. K. Reddy and published by S. Chand, New Delhi, was prescribed by R. T. M. Nagpur University as curriculum for B. A. I, from 2003 to 2008. After him Prof. K. Satyanarayan along with the routine teaching responsibilities, also held some of the important positions in the university administration, one of them being the Chairman of the Board of Studies of English in R. T. M. Nagpur University. In 1993, an equally capable and linguistically versatile faculty Dr. B. R. Pandey joined the department and served till 2004.

At present four regular faculties, Dr. P. M. Bansod, Dr. A. L. Pandhare and Prof. S.V. Tipale shoulder the responsibilities of the department, headed by Prof. A. N. Barde, and assisted by CHB teachers. The department is actively involved in the curricular, extension and research activities, and currently Dr Pandhare is serving as a member of Board of Studies, Language in Science.

Faculty

The faculties of the department are engaged in research, publication academic/professional development activities. A UGC sponsored national conference was organized by the department on 2^nd February 2012. The topic of the conference was “Ecocriticism: Developing Environmental Consciousness through English Studies”. The key note speakers were Dr. Nirmal Selvamony, Head, Deptt. of English, Central University of Tamilnadu, Thiruvarur and Dr. Anand Patil, a bilingual writer and former Head, Dept. of English, Goa University. About 100 delegates attended the conference and 35 research papers were presented and were published in the proceedings.

Guests on the Dais & Publication of Proceedings

Delegates & the students of the department

List Of Staff Members

At present, four fully qualified faculties, appointed as per UGC guidelines, work in the department on full-time, regular basis who are consistently engaged in the activities of teaching, research, publication, extension and institutional governance. Besides these regular faculties, the department uses services of the faculties on CHB.

Mr. A. N. Barde

Associate Professor & Head

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Mr. P. M. Bansod

Assistant Professor

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Dr. A. L. Pandhare

Associate Professor

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Mr. S. V. Tiple

Assistant Professor

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Achievements of Faculty/Students

Award/Prize : Prof. Pandhare received “The Progress Global Award as Excellence in Research”

Merit Students : —

Result

BA Final Compulsory English

Year	Appeared	Passed	Pass Percentage %
2019-20	96	94	98
2020-21	152	152	100
2021-22	173	154	89
2022-23	160	68	38

BA Final English Literature

Year	Appeared	Passed	Pass Percentage %
2019-20	20	20	100
2020-21	26	26	100
2021-22	18	18	100
2022-23	21	19	87
2023-24	20	15	75

BCom 2^nd Year Compulsory English

Year	Appeared	Passed	Pass Percentage %
2019-20	193	193	100
2020-21	236	234	99
2021-22	249	190	77
2022-23	242	146	61

BCom 2^nd Year Supplementary English

Year	Appeared	Passed	Pass Percentage %
2019-20	16	16	100
2020-21	13	13	100
2021-22	21	21	100
2022-23	25	18	72

BSc 1^st Year Compulsory English

Year	Appeared	Passed	Pass Percentage %
2019-20	225	225	100
2020-21	224	224	100
2021-22	192	177	92
2022-23	151	86	57
2023-24	143	75	53

BSc 1^st Year Supplementary English

Year	Appeared	Passed	Pass Percentage %
2019-20	42	42	100
2020-21	33	33	100
2021-22	45	44	98
2022-23	27	18	67
2023-24	40	28	68

Academic Curriculum

Bridge Courses: Basic Sentence Patterns (for BA, BCom, BSc Sem I)

Add-on/Certificate Courses:

Prof. A. L Pandhare – Value Added Course ‘Soft Skills Development’ (21/06/2021 TO 30/06/2021)
2Prof. A. N Barde – Add-On Course ‘Communicative English Grammar & Vocabulary Building’ (12/07/2021 TO 27/07/2021)

Professional Ethics/Gender Sensitization/Human Values, Environmental Sustainability
Following programs, related with Professional Ethics/Gender Sensitization/Human Values/ Environmental Sustainability are organized every year-

Indirabai Janardanpant Deshpande Inter-Collegiate Debate Competition- January / February
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Birth Anniversary- 14th April
Maharana Pratap Jayanti- 7th June
National Unity Day (Sardar Patel Birth Anniversary)- 31st October
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Anniversary – 14th November

Field work/Internship: NA

Academic Program

Workshop/Seminar/Conference etc.

Prof. Barde & Prof. Pandhare acted as co-coordinators of the international e-Conference “Innovations in Science, Technology, Humanities, Management, and e-Commerce for Sustainable Rural Development” organized by the college, on 14^th – 15^th March 2022.

Guest Lectures

Following Guest Lectures were conducted:

Dr. Imanuel Kondra, Janata College, Chandrapur on “21^st Century Soft Skills for Students” on 22^nd Sept 2018.
Shri Sitakantji Prabhu, Anandwan on “Samidha” (An autobiography of Sau. Sadhanatai Amte) on 29^th January 2019.
Prof. Mohit Sawe, Vivekanand Mahavidyalaya, Bhadrawati on “Better English for Better Opportunities” on 27^th September 2019.
Dr. Yogesh Dudhpachare, Janata College, Chandrapur on “Climate Change” on 9^th October 2023.

Quiz
Following quizzes were conducted:

Vocabulary Quiz was organized on 29th August 2019
Literary Quiz was organized on 29th January 2020

Academic Competition

2023-24

Alumni

The department also takes pride in a long line of alumni functioning in the various governmental and non-governmental positions throughout Maharashtra and beyond, by attempting various competition exams and by having higher qualifications. To name a few, following is the list of the recent alumni who are serving as Heads, Assistant Professors and teachers of English –

Sr. No.	Name Of The Student	UG Passing Year	Placement
1.	Mr. Mohit Sawe	2005	Asst. Prof. Vivekanand College, Bhadravati, Dist. Chandrapur
2.	Mr. Manoj Madavi	2005	Asst. Prof. Annasaheb Gundewar College, Nagpur
3.	Mr. Dilip Bawne	2006	Asst. Prof. Arts & Comm. College, Tukum, Chandrapur
4.	Mr. Ravi Gajbhiye	2006	Asst. Prof., Ashti Dist. Gadchiroli
5.	Mr. Kishor Mahajan	2007	Asst. Prof. Ambedkar college, Chandrapur
6.	Mr. Dipak Wakde	2008	Astt. Prof., Comrade G. S. Parulekar College, Talasari Dist. Palghar
7.	Mr. Ajay Kite	2008	Asst. Prof., Kinwat, Distt. Nanded
8.	Mr. Prithviraj Khobragade	2008	Contributary Lecturer, Paoni
9.	Mr. Rajendrakumar Sakhre	2008	Contributary Lecturer, Ambedkar College, Chandrapur
10.	Mr. Ashish Katore	2010	Asst. Prof. Chintamani College, Ghuggus, Dist. Chandrapur
11.	Mr. Pravin Thamke	2004	Maharashtra State Welfare Dept.’s School Wani, Dist. Chandrapur

Courses Offered

The department offers Compulsory English subject to the Arts faculty students of Part I, II & III; to the Commerce faculty students of Part-I & II; and those of Science faculty Part-I.
As an optional subject, English Literature for B. A. students, and Supplementary English for B. Sc. / B. Com. is available.

Activities

Value Added/Add-on/Skill Enhancement Courses

Various Value Added/Add-on/Skill Enhancement Courses are conducted to cater to the potential needs of students. In the session 2020-21, the following 30 hours courses were conducted –
1. Value Added Course – ‘Soft Skill Development’ by Dr. a. L. Pandhare
2. Add on Course – ‘Communicative English Grammar & Vocabulary Building’ by A. N Barde

Spoken English Workshop

In order to provide the students with an additional atmosphere of English language listening and speaking, the Digital Language Lab software was purchased from Orell Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Kochi. It was used for demonstrating various aspects of pronunciation, and for listening and speaking practice in ‘A Workshop on the
Basics of Spoken English’ that was conducted by the department from 26^th December 2016 to 14^th February 2017.

1. Value Added Course – ‘Soft Skill Development’ by Dr. a. L. Pandhare
2. Add on Course – ‘Communicative English Grammar & Vocabulary Building’ by A. N Barde

English Literary Association Activities

Detailed Report of English Literary Association Activities – View

Video presentation of plays

The department has ‘English Literary Association’ to promote the students to further their literary interests and to organize various learning and creative activities. Most of the co-curricular activities are held under the under auspices of English Literary Association.

For example, the act-wise video presentations of the plays of Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” (2011-12-13), “The Merchant of Venice” (2015-16) and, “My Fair Lady” a film adaptation of G.B. Shaw’s, “Pygmalion” (2011-12-13), in BA III English Literature course, was organized for the students.

Guest Lectures

Under the same banner two Guest Lectures, one of Dr M. S. Deshpande, Head, Dept. of Physics, ANC, on “The Origin of Universe and our Changing Conceptions about its Structure” (25th Sept. 2013) and the other of Prof. Dr. M. K. Gupta, Dept. of English, Lokmanya Tilak College, Wani, on “Why/ How to study Literature” (23 Sept. 2014) were organized.

Dr. M. S. Deshpande delivering Guest Lecture

Dr. M. K. Gupta talks on “Why/ How to study
Literature”

Staff & Students

Poster Competition

A syllabus based ‘Poster Competition’ was organized for the students of English Literature under the banner of English Literary Association, on 20^th September 2016, for which the prizes of Rs. 500/-, 300/- & 200/- were given. The poster competition was held in the College Hall and the topic for the competition was the autobiographical presentation of the prescribed authors, allotted group-wise, to the students. About 70 students participated in the competition.

University level Participation of students

Two students of the department Mr. Rupesh Pise and Mr. A. J. Lohakare represented the college in the university level Power Point Presentation Competition on English Literature held at Gondwana University Gadchiroli on 13^th March 2017. ‘Shakespearean quotations’ was the topic of their presentation.

Students Progression

Number of students progressing to higher education during the year 2023-24

Name of student enrolling into higher education	Program graduated from	Name of institution joined	Name of programme admitted to
Vaibhav N Gajbhe	B.A.	Anand Niketan College, Warora	M A (History)
Sakshi R Gaikwad	B.A.	Lokmanya College, Worora	M A (English)
Ravina V Patil	B.A.	Lokmanya College Worora	M A (English)
Manoj B Madavi	B.A	Dr Ambedkar College, Chandrapur	M A (Pol. Sci)
Pranit P Gajbhe	B.A	Dr Ambedkar College, Chandrapur	M A (Economics)
Sakshi S Bawane	B.A.	Anand Niketan College, Warora	M A (Pol. Sci)
Jayashri R Turankar	B.A.	Anand Niketan College, Warora	M A (Pol. Sci)

Research Projects

A Minor Research Project entitled ‘Ecological and Environmental Concerns in the Novels of Margaret Atwood’ was carried out by Prof. A. N. Barde, from February 2015 to January 2017, vide letter no. FN/23-1015/13 (WRO)