Guidelines For Young Interns Program: Government of Rajasthan

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GOVERNMENT OF RAJASTHAN

GUIDELINES FOR YOUNG INTERNS PROGRAM


(YIP) – 2022

DIRECTORATE OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS


DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING

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YOUNG INTERNS PROGRAM
1. INTRODUCTION:
The Young Interns program (YIP) is an internship program
undertaken by the state government to provide an opportunity to
the talented and progressive youth to upgrade their skills by gaining
practical experience of working in the programs, schemes and
projects of the government departments. The government will be
benefitted by infusing novelty and innovation in the project
implementation and service delivery system through the youthful
and courageous ideas & techniques of the young interns. Thus the
program will be mutually beneficial for all stakeholders i.e. the
young interns, Government Departments and the service delivery
infrastructure of the state.

As a matter of fact, the YIP is purely an internship program


and does not provide any assurance or guarantee for job. The
government may terminate internship at any point of time without
any obligation to cite any reason of termination.

2. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM:


The objectives of the program are as follows:-
 To empower the young brains to learn and spread awareness
and knowledge about various government programs and
services for the benefit of society and to act as a bridge
between the service providers and recipients.
 To strengthen their research and evaluation skills in the field
of public administration and development services.
 To generate interest amongst youth towards public services.
 To get independent critical analysis of Government programs
and seeks suggestions for corrective measures.
 To enhance the outreach and impact of Government schemes
& programs.

3. ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT:
The Planning Department is the administrative department and will
be responsible for overall implementation of the program. Execution
and budgetary control of the program will be under the Directorate
of Economic and Statistics (DES).

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4. DURATION OF INTERNSHIP:
 Internship would be consisting of two phases of one year each.
 After end of the first phase an internal assessment will be
conducted for all the interns.
 If the performance of the interns after the end of first phase
found satisfactory, the internship shall continue for next
phase.

5. TERMINATION OF INTERNSHIP:
 The duration of internship shall be of two years however, State
Government reserves the right to terminate the internship at
any point of time without any obligation to cite reason of
termination.
 If an intern is found guilty of any misconduct or misbehavior
or his/her performance is found unsatisfactory, his/her
internship can be terminated at any point of time without
extending any explanation or serving an advance notice.
 In case, an intern leaves the internship in between, on account
of any reason such as getting any kind of employment etc.,
he/she has to submit his/her resignation along with detailed
report of work done by him/her (till the resignation date)
within one month of his/her resignation letter.
 In case of abandonment of internship by the intern, the
stipend shall be immediately stopped and the payment of the
last month stipend shall be released only after his/her
submission of internship report.
 After expiry of the given month for the submission of the
report, if the intern still fails to submit the internship report,
the process of recovery of entire internship amount will be
initiated.

6. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
6.1. General Eligibility Criteria-
 Age-Age between 21 yrs. to 30 yrs.
 Excellent communication/presentation/intra–personal skills/
soft skills.
 Good Knowledge of English as well as Hindi language
(Reading, Speaking, Writing and Understanding)
 Well versed in ICT skills and knowledge of MS Office and other
similar programs on alternative platforms.
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 Other educational and technical qualifications and experience
shall be as per the Terms of Reference (ToR) submitted by the
concerned department.

6.2. Specific Eligibility Criteria for Application-


 The applicant should have a post-graduate qualification with
minimum 60% marks or a CGPA of 6 on a scale of 10 in any
stream from a recognized university.
 The graduate applicant of Engineering/Medical/Law/CA/CS
Streams form a recognized University with minimum 60%
marks or a CGPA of 6 on a scale of 10 shall also be eligible for
this internship.
 The applicant with working experience in the field of his/her
choice of department shall be given priority.
 In case of any dispute, the decision of the Secretary-in-charge,
Planning Department will be binding and final.

7. SELECTION PROCEDURE of YIPs


 Application will be invited from the eligible candidates through
the online application platform.
 The applicant has to submit an "intent write-up" of not less
than 400 words to justify his selection of department as well as
his chosen sector of internship.
 All the nodal officers of the participating departments shall be
provided access to the application platform of YIP. These nodal
officers will be able to view and download only the applications
of the applicants concerned with their own department.
 Nodal officers shall download applications and scrutinized for
eligibility of applicants who have shown their interest in their
department.
 The applicants found eligible shall be invited for group
discussion and/or personal interview by the nodal officers. The
nodal officers will finalize the selection of the requisite number
of interns including equal number of waiting candidates (in
order of their merit) and upload the list on the portal.
 The composite list of the selected candidates shall be uploaded
on the YIP portal and the grant of internship letters with
joining dates shall be issued to the selected candidates.

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 If the candidates selected through the main merit do not report
for joining during the stipulated period, he/she shall lose the
right of internship and the next candidate in the waiting list
showing interest in the same department as the leaving
applicant, shall be given opportunity of the grant of internship.

8. STRUCTURE OF INTERNSHIP
 Interns will be allotted to the department of their choice. The
department will assign work to the intern as per requirement.
 Under guidance of mentor/supervisor, intern will undertake
all the work assigned to him for Implementation of ongoing
Projects/Schemes of the department.
 The internship shall be completed by all the interns of all the
departments as per the provisions of point number-4.
 After the end of internship the intern will submit the final
report to the Nodal officer/supervisor and consequently, the
report shall be evaluated for quality and utility by the
supervisor.
 The supervisor shall submit the report to the Head of
department of the concerned department with a
recommendation of approval/disapproval.
 Head of department as mentor shall forward the report to the
DES with his/her own recommendation.
 This is a full time internship program therefore during the
internship; Interns will not be allowed to opt for any additional
job/work that will entail in getting a regular remuneration.
 If at a later stage, it is found that a particular intern was
earning some kind of remuneration then his/her internship
will be terminated with immediate effect.
 It is mandatory for all the interns to have their own Laptop
and data card/internet facility.
 Interns will not be considered as employees of the department
or DES during or after the internship.

9. MENTOR:
 Administrative Secretary of concerned department will be
mentor of the intern for internship who will review the
progress of internship work time to time.

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 The mentor may nominate a nodal officer for the program in
that department who will be responsible for all internship work
and official correspondence and communication with DES.
 The mentor has to communicate the name of the nominated
nodal officer to the DES before authorizing him/her for
initializing communication with the DES.
 Besides it, a supervisor may also be nominated by mentor for
support and guidance to the intern. However, interns will
present their reports to mentor every month or whenever
he/she is asked for it.
 The mentor will ensure that the interns allotted to him/her
should be provided with an identity card so that it can
facilitate them while interacting/communicating with different
departments/agencies during their work of completion of
thesis.

10. STIPEND:
 The selected interns will be paid Rs. 30,000/- per month as
stipend. Rs. 2500/- shall be paid to each intern per month for
own laptop and connectivity.
 The payment of the stipend for the last quarter of the
internship shall be withheld if the final report of the internship
complete in all respects is not submitted and reached to DES
during this quarter.
 After joining internship, if intern leaves the assignment/
internship within one month, no stipend or any other
remuneration will be paid.
 Every intern will be eligible for one casual leave every month
on accrual basis. Such leaves shall be provided in cumulative
manner i.e. 12 leaves for the entire year. If the intern avails a
leave without accrual, his payment for the leave day shall be
deducted from the final monthly payment of stipend.
 The selected interns will be given only stipend.
 No TA/DA and other allowances will be paid for their expenses
incurred on any physical communication or field visits.
 DES or concerned department accepts no responsibility for
medical insurance of the intern or for any costs arising out of
the accidents and/or illness occurred during the period of
internship.
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11. DEPARTMENT/ SECTORS FOR INTERNSHIP:
It is expected from all the applicants that they have knowledge
of schemes/programs running by different departments. Some
of the departments/sectors in which the internships are open
are given in Annexure-1 for the preliminary knowledge of the
applicants.

12. CERTIFICATE OF INTERNSHIP:


 The interns of whose final reports shall be received from the
incumbent department with duly approved by the
Administrative Secretary will be awarded the internship
completion certificate by DES.
 No certificate will be awarded if the intern leaves the
assignment before completion or if his/her internship is
terminated or the reports were not found appropriate for
awarding an internship by the evaluating organization.
 In the case of withholding of internship on account of
inappropriateness of the final report submitted by the intern,
he/she shall be provided another one month for improving the
report and resubmitting the revised report. No stipend shall be
admissible for such extension of period.
 During the final month, the intern shall prepare and submit
the internship report. If the intern fails to submit the
internship report during this month, the internship certificate
and the stipend of the last month shall also be withheld till
next another month. After expiry of this extra month, the
proceedings of recovery of the stipend of the last quarter shall
be started.

13. MISCELLANEOUS:
The place of the jurisdiction of any dispute, shall be Jaipur.

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Annexure-1

Department and Sectors for Internship under YIP


CMO

CHIEF SECRETARY OFFICE

FINANCE DEPARTMENT

MEDICAL & HEALTH


1. Study of Covid-19 preparedness and management in Rajasthan
2. Impact Assessment of Mukhya Mantri Chiranjivi Swasthaya Bima Yojana
3. Innovations in immunization, vaccination and communicable disease
control mechanism
WCD
1. UDAAN Yojana
RTDC
1. Enhancement of various infrastructural facilities available with RTDC
2. Induction of AR/VR in most popular tourist destinations
RD & PR
1. RAJEEVIKA
2. Enhancement in the guidelines of utilization of MLALAD/ MPLAD &
MAGPY Fund through innovation
3. Technological augmentation for better in infrastructure of Panchayati
Raj/Rural Department

FOOD AND CIVIL SUPPLY & CONSUMER AFFAIRS (5)


1. Simplification and universalization of authentication through e-
PDS/POS/Technology
2. Modernization of Food Corporation
3. Supply chain management through modern tools

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UDH & LSG / DLB
1. Smart Cities Mission: Induction of new technology for jam-free rapid
transportation
2. Indira Rasoi Yojana
3. Multipurpose Mass Transit cards
DIPR
1. Mass Communication
RSLDC
1. Redesigning of skill development procedures and enhancement of
infrastructures
2. Human resource planning and training need assessment across public as
well as private sector
AGRICULTURE/AH/FISHERIES/GAU PALAN
1. Agriculture produce based Food processing
2. Self-sustaining agriculture marketing
PLANNING/JAN AADHAAR
1. Enhancement in intervention of PPP projects
2. PMU and externally projects
3. Jan Aadhaar Yojana: Impact assessment of direct benefit transfer through
Jan Aadhaar platform
4. E-Commerce and General Insurance under Jan-Aadhaar Yojana.
5. Roadmap development for Improving and attainment of Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG) at the level of state as well as district level by
different departments
DES
1. Reduction in Regional disparities in district
2. Analysis of data and information generated by different sections of DES
3. Trend analysis in Growth of gross domestic product in Rajasthan in
comparison to other States

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4. Analysis of Economic & Purpose wise Classification of State
Budget/Local body Accounts
HIGHER EDUCATION
5. Introduction of Tools of modern pedagogy
6. Modernization and implementation of Integrated HR management

POLICE /HOME /JAIL/SCRB


1. Cybercrime remedies and investigation tools
2. Enhancing role of SCRB in crime analysis and crime prevention
3. Modernization of state police forces
4. Impact assessment of Police Mitra Yojana
ENERGY/ RENEWABLE ENERGY
1. Implications of Rajasthan Solar Energy Policy and assessment of its
implementation
2. Augmentations of Rajasthan Wind and Hybrid energy capacity
3. Public participation in energy self-sustenance of the state
INDUSTRY
1. Capacity building for start-ups
2. Bureau of Investment Promotion (BIP)
3. Innovations in RIICO
4. Rajasthan Investment Promotion Scheme (RIPS 2019)
DOIT&C
1. Artificial Intelligence
2. Robotics
3. Chatbot
4. Data Analytics
5. IoT
6. Nano Technology

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Water Resource
1. Modernization of dam safety infrastructure through IT tools
2. Enhancement in monitoring and course correction tools for environmental
management of water resources
3. River linking projects
4. Interstate water disputes and finding their solutions
PHED
1. Feasible use of water
2. Revenue management
3. Emergency response
4. Inter departmental issues related to water and finance
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
1. Industry Academia Collaboration
2. Science Communication & Science Popularization
3. Inter-disciplinary Cyber Physical System
4. Geo Spatial Technologies
Labour Department

1. Success of BOCW in desert districts of State.


2. Collection of cess: use of technology.
3. Effectiveness of Labour Laws in EoDB scenario.
4. Silicosis Policy : Complete Review
Social Justice and Empowerment

1. Anuprati Scheme : Evaluation


2. Nav-Jeevan Scheme: Critical Review
3. Palanhaar Scheme: Benefits and Applications
4. Silicosis Policy : Complete Review
Elementary Education
1. New Education Policy 2020
2. Reasons for increasing dropout rate at various levels

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Art and Culture
1. Exploration, excavation and conservation of Archaeological Sites,
Monuments of State.
2. Promotion of Rajasthan Art & Culture among Disappear
Tribal Area Development
1. Van Dhan Yojana
2. Better supervision in hostel and residential schools.
Women Empowerment
1. IM Shakti– Indira Mahila Shakti Fund & related Schemes

Disaster Management and Relief Department


1. Climate Change

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