The objects of the University shall be the following, namely:—
(i) to advance and disseminate learning and knowledge in health sciences and allied fields by fostering and promoting medical research;
(ii) to design new courses and curricula based on the advances in the field of health science;
(iii) to regulate the academic standards of the affiliated colleges or institutions;
(iv) to promote preventive curative and rehabilitative aspects of health;
(v) to organise programmes to tackle health problems of the society;
(vi) to give leadership to the medical human resource development in the State;
(vii) to give leadership to the health planning and health policy formulation for the State;
(viii) to give thrust to epidemiological studies, monitoring and surveillance system of the diseases prevalent in the State;
(ix) to act as the nodal agency for linkages with other national and international institutions;
(x) to develop a platform for the dialogue between different systems of health care;
(xi) to explore the possibilities of joint research programmes and integration between different systems of medicine;
(xii) to promote equitable distribution of facilities for education in health and allied sciences;
(xiii) to promote acquisition of knowledge in a rapidly developing and changing society and to continually offer opportunities for upgrading knowledge and imparting training and development of skills in the context of innovations, research and discovery in all 6 fields of human endeavour by establishing educational network related to health sciences with use of modern communication media and technologies appropriate for a learning society;
(xiv) to give more thrust for the development of Indian Systems of Medicine and all its branches and Homoeopathy by encouraging research and other academic activities in the related areas.