DHPVE is established with a view to cater to academic quality in non-scholastic areas like art, health and physical education.

The Department is responsible for orientation courses for the Health Club sponsors and for teachers of other non-scholastic subjects, training programmes for teachers to make the work experience sessions productivity-oriented, pre-vocational training to work experience teachers, remedial training to educationally backward students, preparation of music curriculum for Higher Secondary, State Resource Group training for music and drawing teachers.