Centres for Academic Services.

The university shall establish following centres for Academic Services, namely :-

1. (1) Centre for Knowledge Resources, Translation and Interpretation Services.- This centre shall provide basic learning material and translations of reference books, etc. to this and other universities and required services of any other translation and interpretation in Marathi, training programmes in curriculum designing, question banks, creativity and invention methods and collaborative knowledge production.
2. (2) Centre for Audio-Video and Computational Literature Production.- This Centre shall provide for,-
   • (a) concept of university on online teaching-learning programmes through Audio-Visual (AV) Studio;
   • (b) production of Audio-Visual (AV) teaching learning material and broadcast-telecast lessons of experts in various fields through knowledge transmission channels.
3. (3) International Centre for Promotion of Marathi Language, Marathi Literature and Culture.- This centre shall provide for,-
   • (a) collaboration programmes with foreign universities and Marathi organizations to promote Marathi language, Marathi literature and culture;
   • (b) cultural exchange programmes, collaborative research activities, etc.
4. (4) Library and Information Centre.- This centre shall provide,-
   • (a) services to students and faculty members, the record of thoughts, ideas through reference books and reference services;
   • (b) collection of reference books, digital books and periodicals;
   • (c) a collection of films, photographs and other non-book material, newspapers, pamphlets, tapes, micro films, graphs, charts, etc.
5. (5) Museum and Archaeology Centre.- This centre shall provide,-
   • (a) museum of Marathi manuscripts, rare books, Audio-Visual of kirtan, performances of drama, music, folk loves collection of cultural objects related to Marathi culture and history, musical instruments, etc.
   • (b) preservation of the literary and cultural heritage of Maharashtra.
6. (6) Computational Linguistic Lab.- This centre shall provide for,-
   • (a) phonetic lab for speech analysis, speech recognition, forensic analysis;
   • (b) use of multispeech video phonetic electrograph and software for teaching language programmes;
   • (c) Computational Linguistic Laboratory for machine learning, deep learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), etc., facilities of speech synthesizer, machine translation, corpus annotation tools for fascinating new area of research in linguistics, etc.
7. (7) Psycholinguistic Laboratory.- Psycholinguistic laboratory shall provide for various languages tests such as test for early reading ability, comprehensive test of phonological processing, test of pre-school early literacy, primary test of non-verbal intelligence.
8. (8) Centre for Book Production and Printing Services.- This centre shall provide for,-
   • (a) publish various reference books in Marathi;
   • (b) translation of monographs and research material in Marathi;
   • (c) editing of text-books and support reading material and transformational texts;
   • (d) services of content editing, language-editing, copy-editing, proof-reading, layout designing, etc.