The aims and objectives of the Research committee are as follows:

1. Develop the research infrastructure and capabilities of the College. This will require dedicating a certain amount of soft and hard infrastructure towards creating a research atmosphere in the College.

2. Promote and encourage research in certain thematic areas identified by the College. The research will be conducted either by the College faculty or visiting scholars and fellows. This will require developing a medium- and long-term research agenda and strategy.

3. Provide an ethical framework and quality control mechanism for the research work carried out in the College. This will require the development of a Research Council/Committee to approve and provide funding for research internally and an Institutional Review Board (IRB) to provide certification of Ethics review for research conducted in the College.

Activities to achieve the objectives of the committee

1. The College will strive to create a substantial reserve of Research Fund to facilitate research work around core thematic areas. Once this research fund is established, the College faculty will be encouraged to apply for resources from the Research Fund for basic research.

2. The College has established an Institutional Review Board (IRB) to provide an ethical framework for the research conducted by the faculty and students of the College. A Research Committee will oversee the quality aspects of the research conducted in the College.

3. The College will make all attempts to secure resources to provide visiting fellowships to scholars to encourage research atmosphere at the College.

4. The College will try to develop meaningful linkages with research institutions, both government and private, and esteemed publication houses.

5. Keeping in view out Jesuit ethos, the College will organise, on a regular basis, national level capacity building workshops/seminars focusing on research methodology for faculty from smaller colleges/universities.