Aims & Objectives

• 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 programmes 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 the 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 a journal for the exposition of emerging cultural and socio-economic patterns and values.

• To establish and maintain libraries and information services to facilitate the spread of new information and knowledge and also the study of world cultures and socio-economic conditions.

• To offer prizes and to grant scholarships in furtherance of the objectives of the Centre.

• To provide a forum for the promotion of visual, performing, 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.