It provides academic and technical support to the state of Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

UNESCO Bangkok has declared Regional Institute of Education, Bhubaneswar as a resource centre for ICT.

The school is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi.

The institute's library has more than 70,000 documents, which includes about 59,000 books, 1000 bound volumes of periodicals, 300 reports, 580 dissertations, 100 maps.

The labs are well equipped with sufficient number of apparatuses and modern electronic devices.