The aim and objects of the union are:
- To Promote, safeguard and defend the professional interests and status of working journalists.
- To promote and maintain the highest standards of professional conduct and integrity.
- To strive for betterment of working conditions of journalists, especially in regard to salary, remunerations, conditions of service, tenure of office, allowances and facilities and privileges for the due discharge of their responsibilities without fear or favour.
- To strive for the defend the freedom of the press.
- To safeguard and promote the interests of the journalists generally and to help members to secure employment, where necessary.
- To establish benevolent and pension funds, to secure employment, sickness and death benefits for the members.
- To work for the promote legislation for the economic and professional welfare of journalists and for proper development of the newspaper industry free from outside control.
- To arrange for the proper training of journalists and improving their standard of efficiency.
- To establish and maintain the institution of journalists at State Level.
- To promote and encourage inculcation of national outlook and sprit of dedication through service to society among the journalists in particular and other sections of the people in general through dissemination and correct interpretation of facts, and presentation of the country’s rich heritage by means of available media.
- To establish and maintain libraries for the use of its members.
- To collect, classify and circulate statistics and other information’s relating to the Press and to do such other things conducive to the growth of a free Press.
- To conduct and publish journals and papers on behalf of the Union and to own, maintain and run Printing Press.
- To encourage, promote and invest in journalists co-operatives, to start and run newspapers and news agencies.
- To build up and administer funds for the provisions of legal aid, pension group insurance and other benefits.
- To act on behalf of the members for the establishment of units in any manner whatsoever connected with their avocation and employment.
- To deal with questions affecting the professional conduct of its members.
- To own, construct and maintain buildings for the benefit of its members and the Union, to acquire property of every kind, to sell, mortgage or alienate or convert them into money or to create or constiture, maintain or conduct Trusts in respect of them or to admimnister or manage Trusts for the benefit of its members.
- To conduct the affairs of the Union and its constituent units on trade union lines without any outsite political control or influence in any manner, and
- To do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objectives or any of them.