To promote teaching, training and policy research, extensive ethnographic and anthropological study relevant to the tribal culture, dialect, folk literature, oral history, painting, music, dance, handicraft, sculpture and development;

To conduct action and extension activities on the identified issues, affecting the tribal livelihood systems;

To suggest suitable measures to the State Government for undertaking various welfare programmes in a meaningful way for the overall development of tribal areas;

Have a collaboration with prime national level Universities and Research Institutions in the field of teaching, research and extension activities;

To establish a Museum for preserving Tribal Art, Sculpture, etc.