The Department of Media and Library Studies (DMLS)is a new department which was formed in February 2022 following the intra university restructuring. It was formed after merging the Department of Journalism and Media Studies (DJMS) with the Department of History, Library and Information Management Studies. The DJMS was established in 2008 and from its inception until 2015 it was offering two bachelor degree programmes namely BA Journalism and BA Mass Communication. From 2015, it started offering a Master’s degree Programme in Mass Communication. The Department of History, Library and Information Management on its own right was instituted in 2013. Its pioneer Programme was a Bachelor Degree in Library and Information Management (BLIM). From 2016 it started offering a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Management. As of now the DMLS offers three Bachelor degree programmes and two master’s degree programmes.