To emerge as globally competitive India's foremost research institution in Nano Science and Technology and to contribute to the society through application of nanoscience and nanotechnology in the field of agriculture, medicine, energy and environment.
To be a world class research institution by creating state-of-the-art infrastructural facilities, engaging outstanding scientists from different branches of science and engineering, encouraging them to carry out their individual scientific research to be published in the best journals along with their mandate to jointly work on interdisciplinary projects to develop devices/technologies based on nano science and technology. To encourage all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology with major thrust on the following areas: agricultural nanotechnology, sensors, medical nanotechnology, nanotechnology based solutions for energy and environmen