The Centre has decided to engage young interns to help it in improving policy formulation. The decision to engage interns comes after Railway Ministry too announced in its budget that some of the departments would encourage internship for young trainees to help them as well as the orgnisation to understand the realities.
DoPT, however, took the lead in seeking nominations from Indian nationals who are graduate, post-graduate or research students enrolled in reputed universities or institutions in India or abroad and preferably having specialisation in human resource and associated subjects in public policy. They will be given a monthly stipend of Rs 10,000.
“The interns may benefit by getting an exposure to the Government functioning and the policy issues in human resource management in Government of India and contribute to the policy formulation by generating policy inputs such as empirical analysis, briefing reports, policy papers etc.
According to the objective of the scheme the department may benefit from the additional resources in the form of young talents and their outputs which will add to its policy formulation base. The period of internship will be for a minimum period of two months.
“Interns may be given a stipend of Rs 10,000 per month necessary to meet the conveyance and other daily needs. It is neither a job nor a promise for job in the future,” the DoPT said.
As per the notification, the Government has proposed to engage 10 interns for internship with the last date for sending application to the DoPT is September 15.