The main objective of setting up of the Indian Culinary Institute (ICI) is to institutionalize a mechanism to support efforts intended to preserve, document, promote and disseminate Indian Cuisine, meet the sectoral requirement of specialists specific to Indian Cuisine, as also of promoting Cuisine as a Niche Tourism product. .

The ICIs will be Centres of Excellence which will offer structured regular programmes of study specific to culinary arts and culinary management leading to graduate and post-graduate level degrees, promote research and innovation, organize demand-driven certificate and diploma courses, document and create database specific to Indian cuisine and commission studies and survey on cuisine.

The need for ICI was felt as the formal education specific to Indian cuisine, a culinary art, with pan India sweep is conspicuous by its absence. There is no regular credible institutional source at apex level for the supply of cuisine specialists to the Sector. Also, there was no institutional mechanism to document and disseminate knowledge related to cuisine and gastronomy.

To offer structured regular programmes of study specific to culinary arts leading to graduate and post graduate level degrees;To deposit all moneys credited to the fund in such banks or to invest them in such manner as the Society may, with the approval of the Central Government decides;

To draw, make, accept, endorse, and discount cheques, notes or other negotiable instruments, and for these purposes to sign, execute and deliver such assurances and deeds as may be necessary;

To pay out of the funds belonging to the society or out of any particular part of such funds the expenses incurred by the Society from time to time including all expenses incidental to the formation of the Society and Management and Administration of any of the foregoing objects including all rent, rates, taxes, outgoings and the salaries of the employees;

To maintain proper accounts and other relevant records and prepare an annual statement of accounts including the balance sheet in such form as may be prescribed by the Central Government;

To have the accounts of the Society audited in such manner as the Central Government may direct and to forward annually to the Central Government the accounts duly certified by the auditors together with the audit report thereon;

To constitute such committees or sub-committees as it may deem fit;

To delegate all or any of its powers to the Board of Governors of the Institute or to the Executive Committee or to any of the committees or sub-committees constituted by the Society or the Board, or to any one or more members of its bodies or its officers;

 To do all such lawful acts, deeds or things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the objects of the Society.