- Compilation of data and dissemination of information pertaining to art and culture.
- Encouraging promising artistes through a scheme of scholarships for study in india or abroad.
- Establishment matters relating to officers and staff under the administrative control of the Department except matters alloted to the General Administration Department.
- Fostering aesthetic taste in the minds of the people of Haryana.
- Fostering music, drama, painting, culture amongst all sections of the people and especially among school-going students as well as college and university students by all means including the holding of competitions.
- Giving grants-in-aid to institutions devoted to fostering art and culture in Haryana.
- Giving or sponsoring of Cultural performances, (Including the actual performances and Music or Dance performaces.
- Organising conferences, seminars etc. on art subjects.
- Producing or assisting in the production of films. 10. Setting up or assisting in the setting up of academy or academies devoted to music, dance, culture.
- Setting up or assisting in the setting up of academy or academies devoted to music, dance, culture.
- Setting up or assisting in the setting up of an art museum.
- Setting up or assisting in the setting up of libraries devoted to the collection of books, films, records etc. on art and culture.
- Undertaking the artistic decoration of all Government buildings.
