The University shall have the following objectives, namely:-
(1) to supply the required manpower of appropriate kind and quality to meet the needs of society and national development plans;
(2) to advance frontiers of knowledge by research, innovation, invention and product improvement;
(3) to develop in the youth a sensitivity to environment and to inculcate a consciousness of the real problems and social needs;
(4) to derive benefits from the ever growing scientific and technological knowledge in different parts of the world;
(5) to formulate general goals and responsibilities of technological education in the service of man and the nation;
(6) to develop good entrepreneurial abilities among the youth;
(7) to contribute to smooth and effective transfer of technology to the agencies that require them in the community; and
(8) to affiliate all Technical Education Institutions excluding Polytechnics, ITSs and ITCs.
1[(9) undertake necessary or expedient action to pursue and promote the objectives of the university as a non-profit organization.]1
1. Inserted bye Act 36 of 2015 w.e.f 01.04.1998