The Academy of Classical and Folk Arts, IIT Kharagpur aims to nurture the innovation skills of its unique talent pool through India's rich milieu of creative arts. It aims to provide a platform for the IIT Kharagpur community to teach and learn various music and creative art forms, explore the scientific and cognitive principles of learning art forms, and translate these principles into an unique pedagogy for learning science and technology.

The teaching-learning processes of our traditional arts forms are rooted in innovation, which enables for example, a sitarist to render a raga in her own way without adherence to any preset notation. Such abilities, when cultivated over time, develops concentration and confidence, advanced left-brain right-brain coordination, and superior innovation skills, all of which are recipes for excellence in scientific creativity.