- To contribute to the university’s strategic educational and research missions and to support synergies between research, teaching and learning.
- To promote and facilitate collaborative and/or interdisciplinary research on the thrust area.
- To provide opportunity for flowering of creative and critical potential of young talents interested in working on the socio-cultural –literary aspects of the southern parts of Bengal in the wider contexts.
- To motivate the students to become research oriented and be careful of their social responsibilities in higher studies
- To make the young talents aware of the different cultural and literary manifestations in the adjoining areas, hitherto neglected/unexplored, in keeping with the vision document of the UGC and MHRD
- To transfer and mobilize knowledge gained through research for the benefit of society in general and the people of the focal region in particular, via a variety of mechanisms as appropriate.
- To promote research in pure and applied sciences and their practical applications to society and environment.
- To spread the scope of research facility among the interested students.
- To conduct interdisciplinary science research that leads to a proper understanding of nature and natural resources.
- To enhance the use of local resources in research resulting in economic upliftment of the concerned aiming at sustainable development of society
- To design and synthesis of biocompatible compounds prior to economical viability for welfare of society.
- To disseminate scientific knowledge and create scientific temper among the people.
- To publish proceedings, journals, memoirs, transactions and other publications on scientific subjects.
- To hold conferences, symposia, seminars, workshops, lectures etc on scientific topics of national and international importance either alone or in collaboration with local, regional, national or international organizations and institutions.