- To create a platform for open discussion and for stimulating debates by mobilizing the intellectual resources with which the City of Pune is so richly endowed.
- To promote activities and programs with strong emphasis on involvement of youth so as to help build future leadership and to inspire a new generation to create positive social change based on the eternal human values enshrined in the UN Charter and the Indian Constitution.
- To undertake, organize and facilitate study courses, conferences, seminars, lectures in matters relating to all round socio-economic and cultural development of the city of Pune in particular and the nation in general.
- To undertake, facilitate and provide for the publication of newsletters, research papers and books and of a journal for the exposition of emerging cultural and socio-economic patterns and values.
- To establish and maintain libraries and information services to facilitate spread of new information and knowledge and also to study of world cultures and socio-economic conditions.
- To offer prizes and to grant scholarships in furtherance of the objects of the Centre.
- To provide forum for the promotion of all arts including visual, performing and design arts and also literature
- To do or get done, all such other lawful things as are conducive or incidental to the attainment of the above aims and objectives.