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National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has invited applications for the NABARD Student Internship Scheme (SIS) 2023-24.
The objective of the Scheme is to assign short term tasks/projects/studies useful, of interest and relevant to NABARD, to talented students to get valuable feedback with a fresh perspective through the studies/projects undertaken by the students. The scheme is also expected to serve as an exercise for documentation of success stories of NABARD’s projects/programmes/schemes/activities at the field level.
Total number of seats is 40 of which 35 will be for Regional Offices/TEs & 5 for Head Office. Detailed break up of seats is given in Annexure I of the Notification at https://www.nabard.org/ (What’s New link)
Selected Interns will be required to study one of the following four NABARD interventions only (i) Millet Agri-Value Chain (ii) Innovative models in financing Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) and Agriculture Value Chain (iii) Technology adoption and deepening/strengthening of cooperatives (iv) Way forward for SHG/Strategies for graduation of SHG to microenterprises.
Duration of the internship will be a minimum of 8 weeks and a maximum of 12 weeks. Interns are required to undertake & complete the internship between 5 May 2023 & 31 August 2023.
Interns will be paid a monthly stipend of Rs. 18000/-. Field visit allowance, Travel allowance and Miscellaneous expenses will also be given. Details are given in the Notification. The monetary benefits will be released on satisfactory completion of the projects.
Eligibility: Applicants should be students pursuing Post-Graduate degree (completing/having completed first year) in Agriculture and allied disciplines (Veterinary, Fisheries, etc.), Agribusiness, Economics, Social Sciences or Management from Institutes/ Universities of repute or Students pursuing 5 years integrated courses including Law, completing/completed 4th year of their course. Indian Students studying abroad are also eligible.
Students applying for internship in a particular State must be either pursuing their degree from that State or they must belong to that State (ordinarily resident of the State).
For seats allocated to Head Office, Mumbai students pursuing education from Mumbai would be preferred. However, they are open to students across the country.
Selection: Applicants will be shortlisted for interview on the basis of weighted score system (based on marks in 10th, 12th and Graduation). The final selection will be solely on the basis of the interview performance. Details are given in the Notification.
Application: Applications can be submitted online at the link provided in the detailed Notification at https://www.nabard.org/ latest by 23rd April, 2023.
For details, visit https://www.nabard.org/
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