Page 8 - Guidelines for Internship/Research Internship for Under Graduate Students

opportunity by undergraduate students enrolled in HEIs. The agriculture sector needs to
be considered by HEIs for the internship in rural regions. The HEIs/Universities at their
level can explore National Qualification Register and check the possible job roles across
sectors for exploring the internship areas (https://nqr.gov.in/). However, the
HEIs/Universities are open to explore areas beyond that and it can be used as an
indicative only.
3. Internship would involve a student from a HEI and he/she would be attached to an
internship supervisor (IS), and mentor preferably from the same HEI for a
specified duration and conduct a time-bound internship project. The HEI (parent
Institute) and the Internship Providing Organization (IPO) would play important
roles in facilitating the smooth conduct of the internship.
4. A provision of group internship may also be considered for handling the chunk
of students in a particular domain by HEIs. The group can be identified for a
particular theme assigned to a particular industry or HEI supervised by an
internship supervisor and mentor. Students can also come together and submit
their proposal to the R&D coordinator and then after the examination of the
proposal the cell can approve/reject it. If the proposal is accepted by the cell, then
the allocation of a supervisor as well as a mentor for the same could be made
as per norms (Student centric rather than Institution Centric). The
HEIs/Universities can also explore the possibilities of joint project works for their
students based on mutual understanding and agreements.
5. The institution, based on local assessment, programs offered by the
institute/university can identify projects linked to the local industry needs and
create a pool available on the portal. The student chooses a project, and he must
get a supervisor and mentor for it. The mechanism of local industry collaboration
should be one of the focal points of HEIs for providing internship opportunities to
students.
6. The internship can be linked to the outcomes of value-added/skill-
development/ability enhancement courses. HEIs may have both backward and
forward integrations for internships. For backward integration, the HEIs can make
use of ability-enhancement courses, value-added courses, and skill- enhancement
courses. These courses should serve as a prerequisite for internships and should
be handled as such.
7. For forward integration the HEIs need to develop a list of projects along with a list
of mentors, the same can be uploaded on the portal developed by HEIs. The
students can pick projects and get paired with chosen mentors along with an
option of co-mentor from the same or any other reputed institution or
organisations.
8. HEIs need to make their digital portals where they can register experts, agencies,
industries, organisations, mentors, faculty members which are open and visible
to students. HEIs must ensure that these portals have the scope of application
programming interface (API) integration, so that when a central portal is available,
integration can be made.
9. Students can choose industry mentor from HEIs/ research
organizations/industrial R&D labs/Universities/other national repute
institutions / organizations / industries / emergency professional / NGOs / local
government officials/ outside India experts working at the international