NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday unveiled an ambitious project to offer 10 million student internships in government departments, urban local bodies and smart cities in the next few years.
While the project will start immediately at 4,400 urban local bodies (ULBs) and 100 smart cities, it will be scaled up to all government departments at the national and state levels in the next few years.
A joint effort of the human resource development (HRD) ministry and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, if goes well, it will be nearly 30 times bigger than the current apprenticeship scheme “India has a substantial pool of technical graduates who should be given a chance to be a part of the urban transformation of India.