Government bid to rope in young interns for policy formulation

New Delhi: The government has decided to engage young interns to help it in improving policy formulation.

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has sought 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.

"The interns may benefit by getting an exposure to the government functioning and the policy issues in human resource management in the Government of India and contribute to the policy formulation by generating policy inputs such as empirical analysis, briefing reports, policy papers etc.

"Department may benefit from the additional resources in the form of young talents and their outputs which will add to its policy formulation base," according to the objective of the scheme put out by the DoPT.

The period of internship will be for a minimum period of two months, it said.

"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.

The government proposes to engage ten interns for internship. The last date for sending application to the DoPT is September 15.