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The Institute was formally opened on the 30th November 1917.

The objects of the Institute are, advancement of knowledge through its workers, and the widest possible civic and public diffusion of it.

The Institute does not undertake instruction on elementary subjects, taught in colleges affiliated to the University, but carry advanced research. For diffusion of knowledge a series of lectures are given in Winter and Spring terms, which are open to the members of the University and the public. These lectures will give a popular and connected account of advances made in science by work carried out in the Institute, and announce for the first time the discoveries made, thus creating an intellectual atmosphere for scientific advance.

The auditorium with its perfect acoustic properties, specially designed for scientific demonstration, accommodates an audience of fifteen hundred.

Sir J. C. Bose will personally train a selected number of scholars, who by their character and work have shown special aptitude, and who would devote their whole life to the pursuit of research. The number of such scholars must necessarily be limited and for the present can not exceed ten scholars already selected. Further extension would depend on the increase of the staff for instruction.

The Bose Institute has been registered under Act XXI of 1861 in June 1918. A Deed of Trust in favour of the Bose Institute regarding the land, buildings and equipment valued at three lacs of rupees and Government Promissory Notes of the value of one lac, has been executed and registered by Sir J. C. Bose.