College Development Council is an appropriate body of the university for ensuring proper planning and integrated development of affiliated colleges and to provide the colleges necessary help and guidance. It serves as an academic guide to the college system and ensures interaction between the academic facilities in the University departments to the teachers in the colleges. It functions as a policy making body in regard to proper planning and integrated development of colleges. CDC advises the University on all matters relating to development of affiliating colleges, such as provision of adequate facilities - academic and physical - for raising the standard of learning, teaching and research and its periodic evaluation for enabling the University to maintain reasonable continuity of policy in regard to development of colleges. It prepares perspective plan for the development and opening of new colleges, to enable the University and State Education authorities to take long term decisions on the planning and development of colleges and may advise the University on matters relating to different disciplines taught in colleges at different levels of University education. It also opines the University in regard to rationalization and implementation of University's policy on affiliation of colleges. It also helps the colleges in their proper development, selection of teachers, student amenities, proper utilization of grants and efficient implementation of UGC approved projects and reforms viz examination reform, restructuring of courses to make them more relevant and significant not only to students, but also to the region as a whole by assessing social transformation and regional development.