The objects of the University shall be––

   (i)  to provide qualified and trained manpower to meet the present and future needs of the co- operative sector by establishing its own Schools or through affiliating institutes;

   (ii)  to provide training, education and capacity building to the employees and board members of co-operative societies at all levels;

   (iii)  to act as an apex body to integrate, coordinate, and standardise the academic and research activities of affiliated co-operative institutes and training centres;

   (iv)  to standardise the course design and content, pedagogy, course delivery in co-operative education and training in accordance with the national and international best practices and the guiding principles specified in the First Schedule to this Act;

   (v)  to develop centres of excellence in co-operative education, training, research and consultancy;

   (vi)  to evolve as an institution of national and international repute for advanced studies in the field of co-operative education and training, and any other areas connected with co-operative societies;

   (vii)  to disseminate and advance knowledge by providing institutional and research facilities in the field of co-operative education and training, and to take appropriate measures for promoting innovations in teaching-learning process and inter-disciplinary studies and research;

   (viii)  to establish Schools and affiliate institutes for imparting the state-of-the-art education and training in the field of co-operation for all sectors;

   (ix)  to provide distance learning or mass e-learning platform and courses for serving the education and training needs of the co-operative societies;

   (x)  to undertake and promote research and development in all sectors relating to co-operatives;

   (xi)  to promote innovation, entrepreneurship and start-ups in the co-operative sector;

   (xii)  to establish and promote partnership and linkages with co-operative societies or unions or federations at all levels, industry, Institutions, Governments, International Co-operative Alliance and co-operative educational institutions in India and abroad for furtherance of its objects;

   (xiii)  to discharge any other objects which the University deems fit to undertake for the furtherance of its objects; and

   (xiv)  to discharge such other objects, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and the Statutes made thereunder, which the Central Government may, by notification, specify in this behalf.