1. Developing Scientific and Technical Terminology in all the 22 Languages of the VIIIth Schedule.

2. Translator Education

1. Running short-term training programmes
2. Creating a course for translators as a part of language
3. Teaching programme
4. Developing specialised courses in translation technology and related areas.
5. Fellowship programmes
6. Encouraging research projects 

3. Information dissemination

4. Promotion and dissemination of good quality translation 

5. Promotion of Machine Translation (MT) and Machine Aided Translation (MAT)

1. Between English and Indian languages.
2. One Indian language and another Indian language.
3. Between Indian languages and major world languages. 

6. Creation of high quality translation tools such as dictionaries, thesauri, word-finders, on-line look-ups and the sourcing software for translation, memory, wordnet etc., and also to explore if these facilities of look-up could be made available in newer and wider platforms such as mobile technology.