PM Internship Scheme: 6% of recipients of provides have joined work thus far

A bit greater than 50,000 candidates have thus far accepted the 1.53 lakh provides made by corporations beneath the Prime Minister Internship Scheme (PMIS), in keeping with knowledge offered by the federal government to the Lok Sabha. Of those that have accepted, 8,700 or about 6% have thus far joined their respective corporations as interns.

The PMIS was introduced within the Budget 2024-25, and goals to offer internships in India’s high 500 corporations to at least one crore youth in 5 years. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs in October 2024 launched a pilot venture of the scheme, which aimed to offer 1.25 lakh internship alternatives to the youth in a single yr. 

In the primary spherical of this pilot, corporations posted greater than 1.27 lakh internship alternatives on the PMIS Portal throughout the nation. 

“Against this, greater than 6.21 lakh purposes have been obtained from about 1.81 lakh candidates,” Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated in a written reply posed by members of Parliament Vijay Kumar Dubey and Shobhanaben Mahendrasinh Baraiya.  

“Partner corporations remodeled 82,000 internship provides to over 60,000 candidates, out of which greater than 28,000 candidates accepted provides to affix the internship, and over 8700 candidates joined their internship,” Ms. Sitharaman added.

In the second spherical of the pilot, which started on January 9, 2025, the associate corporations posted over 1.18 lakh internship alternatives, together with new ones and edited unfilled alternatives from the earlier spherical, throughout 735 districts of the nation. 

“Over 4.55 lakh purposes have been obtained from over 2.14 lakh candidates on this spherical,” Ms. Sitharaman stated. “As on 17.07.2025, associate corporations have remodeled 71,000 provides to the youth and over 22,500 provides have been accepted. Currently, rolling out of provides and the method of acceptances/ becoming a member of by interns is in progress.”

In complete, thus far, 1.53 lakh provides have been made to candidates, of which 50,500 have been accepted.