To provide opportunities to develop and upgrade and disseminate the knowledge, experience and expertise and to develop "knowledge bank" to cater to the stakeholders in NRM sector

To ssist, collaborate and organize training programmes and action research in various NRM related subjects, including the fields of development, administration, industies, and corporate management dependent on natural resouces besides human resource development

To develop and promote reasonably adequate infrastructure to impart and assist more effective trainings, consultancies, research and development programmes, extension activity, monitoring and evaluation of various programmes aimed at alleviating rural poverty

To develop and promote special aras of interest in Joint / Community Forest Management, Rural Development, community participation with special reference to tribals, and other forest dependent communities in development and management of NRM

To develop and promote information Technology, expecially in the areas of Geomatic, Remote Sensing, use of GPS, Management of Information System based on latest technologies