To provide academic and technical resource support to literacy programmes. This has  to be achieved through organizing training programmes, materials development and production, publication, extension activities, innovative projects, research studies and evaluations.

Development of teaching-learning and training materials for literacy programmes.

Production and dissemination (including translation) of literature for adult education.

Training literacy functionaries.

Undertaking motivational and environment building activities for adult education.

Multimedia works.

Running of field programmes.

Action research, evaluation and monitoring of literacy projects.

Undertaking innovative projects to identify future need of literacy programmes.