With the establishment of Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) in 1998, the Public Relations Office also came into existence. It was set up with the aim of propagating the vision and mission of MANUU by interacting with internal and external publics that includes media organizations and agencies and other opinion makers. PR Office propagates the academic research and developmental programmes of the University through press releases, publication material etc.

The work and responsibilities undertaken by PR Office are basically of two types i.e. Event Management and Media Relations.

The PR Office has been organizing University events such as Foundation day, Republic Day, Independence Day and also helps in conducting Azad Day every year besides other major activities such as convocation, national level events and outreach programmes. It also helps Departments, Centres etc. in organizing seminars and conferences by providing media coverage.

The office regularly issues media releases in Urdu and English for the newspapers and other media outlets for wider publicity. It also sends visual feed to various television channels of major events. It issues advertisements regarding admissions, employment, tenders to media through empanelled advertising agency and also uploads interviews of heads, officials on facebook during admission process for wider publicity of courses.

To make people aware of University's functioning, the PR Office prints and publishes Profile and Brochure. It also brings out the University magazine Al Kalam, and circulates it among the University staff and sent to senior officials in the Ministry of Education and UGC and eminent personalities across the country. It also provided vital information about various activities undertaken by the University to IQAC (Internal Quality Assurance Cell) for uploading on NAAC Portal.

PR office is also entrusted with the responsibility of printing New Year wall calendar and diary for the University. It has been preparing wall calendar with the themes related to Urdu language, its history and development since 2015.

Other unforeseen events/activities were also undertaken according to given circumstances and the need of the university at a given time.