Page 13 - Guidelines for Internship/Research Internship for Under Graduate Students

They shall be making the timely evaluation of a student and provide him completion
certification/report for submission in HEI.

● The mentor needs to provide guidance to the students digitally or physically
throughout the internship duration.
● The mentor needs to check and validate the performance of students fortnightly
and after the completion of the internship, issue the certificate/report.
● The mentor must ensure the learning of competencies with research orientation
among the students during the internship duration.
● HEIs may integrate the job assigned to faculty with workload assessment.

7.0 INTERNSHIP MECHANISM

HEIs should develop a roadmap for the smooth functioning of (i) the internship programme
under the Research and Development Cell at the HEIs, (ii) the office of the nodal officer, (iii)
internship portals and about roles and responsibilities of interns, supervisors and mentors,
iv) a list of projects and v) HEI and internship providing organisation may decide about
Internship on mutually agreed terms and conditions. Internship outcomes should have
been incorporated in developing a perspective among the candidates or students towards
a profession and their ability to deconstruct a job role and to become job-ready as soon as
they enter into a job or a profession.

a) Students will apply for research internships on their own or through the mentor of
their parent HEI by registering at the internship portal. The HEI should ensure that
such a student has an appropriate orientation for research through research ability
enhancement courses as a part of the curriculum.
b) Interns will be selected by host organizations based on their selection criteria. The
host organization will arrange to inform the potential intern through the portal itself
or through the mail and will ask for confirmation or for acceptance.
c) If a student fails to get an internship in physical mode, then the host institute should
have a provision for digital or group internship.
d) On receipt of an offer of internship, the student will arrange to consult the internship
supervisor, obtain due permission from the parent institution and join the concerned
host organization for an internship as per the suggested schedule.
e) The student may undergo an internship in the supervisor’s lab/ working space at the
host organization. During the period of internship, the parent HEI through the
internship supervisor and mentor, will arrange to keep track of the activities and
performance of students as interns at the host organization, based on periodic reports
submitted by students.
f) On completion of Internship, intern will prepare internship report and get it endorsed
by mentor.