Internship for Students in Department of Economic Affairs
GOVERNMENT of India's Department of Economic Affairs has the mandate to carry out not only the economic diplomacy but also to build and maintain the economic health of the country, which essentially envisages close interaction with various financial institutions, both domestic and international.
The need for an Internship Programme for the Department has been felt for quite sometime, which is beneficial to both the Department and the intern. The Internship Programme will ensure interaction of the officers of the Department with the young scholars with brilliant academic background from reputed academic institutions in the country. While refreshing ideas from the field of academics will enable the Department to critically analyse its activity and take corrective steps in an objective impartial manner, it will also simultaneously provide an excellent opportunity to the brilliant interns to familiarize themselves with the overall process of formulation of economic policy of the Government at the macro level.
Government has invited applications from brilliant students pursuing Post Graduation, Research Courses in Economics/Finance/Management and 4th & 5th year of 5 year Integrated Courses in Law from Universities/Institutions of National and International repute for a two-month internship in the Department. This is neither a job nor a guarantee for a job, but the interns will get a token remuneration of Rs. 5000/- per month.
The Government should extend this scheme to other departments, but the remuneration is too low; it should be at least Rs. 10,000. Maybe the CBDT and CBEC can use MA English students to do proof reading and grammar and spelling corrections of their notifications and circulars.