(1) to provide for instruction in such branches of learning as the University may think fit, and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge;
(2) to encourage study of modern technology and professional courses;
(3) to provide students and teachers the necessary atmosphere and facilities for the promotion of innovations in education leading to restructuring of course, new and innovative methods of teaching, learning and integral development of personality;
(4) to promote studies in various disciplines and inter disciplinary studies and to promote national integration, secularism and understanding of the international issues amongst the students;
(5) to become a centre of academic excellence in the field of higher education and research;
(6) to become a bridge between the rural-urban divide, extending the benefit of education to the poor and the marginalized, aiming at their empowerment;
(7) to ensure access and equality in higher educational opportunity to all deserving and meritorious students with preferential option for the poor and the marginalized, irrespective of caste and creed;
(8) to inspire and challenge all segments of the University to raise the realm of good to great and to greater through continuous quality assessment;
(9) to offer subjects for competence-building and motivate and animate a work force imbued with human values;
(10) to open centres of studies and campuses in different parts of West Bengal;
(11) to focus on access to knowledge, creation of knowledge, application of knowledge, dissemination of knowledge and development of better knowledge services.