The Board of Planning and Development shall exercise the following powers and perform the following duties, namely :-
(1) to recommend to the Board of Management the broad development programmes in education, having regard to the objectives of the university;
(2) to review the maintenance of standards in instruction, education, research, training and examinations within the university;
(3) to arrange for inspection of university departments and centres, with a view to assessing their academic performance and needs;
(4) to advise the Board of Management and Academic Council on any matter which it may deem necessary for the fulfilment of the objects of the university;
(5) to prepare university perspective development plans, both short term and long term, keeping in view the objectives of the university as laid down in the Act, and with due regard to the State and National Educational Policy and submit the same to the Board of Management for approval;
(6) to recommend to the Board of Management, the development and collaborative programmes for the departments and centres of the university;
(7) to monitor and report the progress of all such approved development and collaborative programmes to the Board of Management;
(8) to evaluate and assess the use of grants by the university departments and centres in respect of development projects and send the report to the Academic Council;
(9) to assess the manpower requirements of trained persons in different fields, such as, commerce, industry, social service, science and technology and make necessary recommendations to the Academic Council introducing and strengthening of relevant courses of study;
(10) to organize academic audit of development and collaborative programmes of the university, according to the guidelines of University Grants Commission or National Assessment Accreditation Council at least once in three years or earlier, if deemed necessary and make necessary recommendations to the university for implementation;
(11) to encourage Marathi as a medium of instruction and communication;
(12) to prepare textbooks as resource material in the print format and electronic format for the under-graduate and post-graduate students;
(13) to translate academic classic works particularly from English and other modern languages in Marathi in print format and electronic format for students;
(14) to undertake the translation of English books in various subjects in collaboration with other universities and colleges as a consortium;
(15) to make extensive use of information and communication technology to enrich and spread Marathi language and literature;
(16) to undertake advance research in Marathi related to cultural and linguistic relation to other languages, carry out translation of works of literature from other languages into Marathi keeping in mind inter-culturalism;
(17) to encourage conceptual, critical, creative and theoretical thinking in Marathi;
(18) to prepare and offer courses of professional and applied nature in Marathi;
(19) to carry out research of variance of Marathi language in different regions;
(20) to facilitate publishing reports, monographs, books, research volumes in Marathi;
(21) to exercise such other powers and perform such other duties, as may be conferred or imposed on it by or under this Act, the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations.