- To organize and conduct undergraduate, post graduate doctoral and post doctoral training for medical and non-medical personnel in specialities of human development.
- To organize and conduct diplomas, graduate, post graduate and doctoral courses in human development
- To organize paramedical courses in clinical child development
- To provide modern and advanced diagnostic laboratory referral facilities for mother for prevention of low birth weight babies
- To institute professorship, resident-ship and fellowship and other research positions for the above purposes
- To conduct lectures, seminars, study groups, workshops, conferences, etc…
- To organize a ‘perinatal epidemiology unit’ in modern lines, a childhood disability registry and newborn follow-up programmes.
- To institute and maintain libraries, to publish research papers, treaties, books and periodicals, newsletters and other literature.
- To work in collaboration with institutions for children needing special care.
- To co-operate with other societies and professional bodies in pursuit of all or any of the above objectives.
- To design preventive and early intervention services for women, child and adolescent care and development, pre-marital counselling service system, throughout the country through ICDS network in collaboration with health, social welfare, education and woman and child development departments of state governments and Government of India.