To contribute to the national goal of universalization of education through a high quality system of open schooling
To reach out of disadvantaged and marginalized groups such as girls, women, scheduled castes, schedules tribes, minorities, differently abled, ex servicemen, rural persons, backward sections, Dalits, nomadic persons and others who need a flexible system of education
To design and develop courses at primary, upper primary, secondary and senior secondary level that would be offered through open schooling.
To plan, design and develop curricular and courses in vocational areas in self learning format in keeping with the ideas of work-cantered education
To function as a Board of Education and certify courses both academic and vocational offered through open schooling to promote equivalent education
To utilize distance education modalities for optimum benefit for those enrolled through open schooling including designing and develop self learning materials in print, audio and video format.
To develop, support systems using e-governance models for ensuring quality education including maintenance of data base on Open Learning
To undertake research, action research in particular for diagnostic problem solving and developmental thrust in building Bihar Board of Open Schooling and Examination
To create a synergy between conventional schooling/ university and ODL systems so that quality of education remains equivalent and Open School becomes a feeder to the University system.
To collaborate with associated educational and vocational institutions at the state levels for example SIERT, SIFT, SCERT, Board of Secondary Education, Colleges of Education, Polytechnics, Shramik Vidyapeeths, Krishi Vigyan Kendra's, etc., for developing and delivering relevant academic and skill oriented courses.
To collaborate with national and international agencies like National Institute of Open Schooling, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Commonwealth of Learning, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNICEF and others for continuing efforts in improvement of quality and standards of distance education processes and materials.