Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Internship Scheme(MOEFCCIS)

Overview

About MOEFCCIS

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Internship Scheme opens twice in a financial year, yet its own order lets a candidate apply only once in that year. That turns the form into a decision rather than an attempt. You name one office and one discipline, one divisional head reads the file, and the stipend that follows is fixed at Rs 10,000 a month for an internship that cannot run past three months.

Interns on this scheme are not all posted to one building in Delhi. The scheme order places them across the country, in the Ministry's own divisions and units, its Integrated Regional Offices, autonomous organisations, subordinate offices, and the ENVIS resource partners and hubs, and the application form turns exactly those six into a dropdown that has to be answered before the department and the subject below it.

The Ministry is candid about what it wants in return. Interns are expected to supplement its own analysis by collecting and collating in-house and other information, and to produce inputs such as empirical analysis, briefing reports and policy papers. That is desk work inside a regulatory ministry, not field placement, and it suits a student whose subject already maps onto the Ministry's files.

Which subjects those are is not left vague. The order carries a closed list of disciplines that runs from Marine Botany, Fisheries and Geology through Geography and GIS to Environmental Law and Public Finance Management, and every application has to sit inside one of them.

The annexure attached to each session's memorandum then names the units taking interns and the disciplines each will accept, and that list reaches well past the capital: Regional Offices at Chennai, Nagpur, Bangalore and Ranchi, the Environment Protection Training and Research Institute at Hyderabad, Thiagarajar College of Engineering at Madurai, Bombay Natural History Society at Mumbai, the Asian Development Research Institute at Patna, and the state pollution control board hubs of the environment information network (session memorandum, Winter Internship).

Who runs it

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At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

There is no standing annual calendar. The order fixes two sessions in a financial year, a Summer Internship and a Winter Internship, and leaves each timetable to be published on the Ministry's website as it is settled. A session opens with an office memorandum that names the divisional heads taking interns and sets the dates.

The stages after the window shuts are internal and are set in the same memorandum: submitted applications are forwarded to the divisional heads, the heads are given a last date to make their selections, the selected list is uploaded to the website, and the internship commences on a named day with a tentative end date for the session. Watching the updates archive is the only way to see a session open, since no notification is sent to anyone who has not yet applied.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The bar here is enrolment, not performance. Someone currently pursuing graduation, post-graduation or research work at a recognised institution qualifies, and the order sets no age limit, no minimum marks and no income condition anywhere in it.

What actually decides an application is subject fit against a specific desk. Because each unit publishes only the disciplines it is willing to take, a candidate in a discipline no unit has named that session has no route in, however strong the record.

The order does write in one preference, for students pursuing an MSc or a PGDM at the Indian Institute of Forest Management. It is a preference the selecting officer exercises, not a reserved share of places, and no number is attached to it.

The form also asks whether the applicant is presently employed and accepts an answer either way, so being in a job does not close the application by itself.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

One internship at this Ministry is all anyone gets. An applicant who has already completed an internship here is barred from applying again, and the exclusion is deliberately blind to subject, so a second application in a different discipline fails on the same clause. It reads as a permanent bar rather than a cooling-off period.

Two further exclusions sit outside the scheme record. An application found incomplete, or not meeting the criteria laid down, is summarily rejected, and nothing in the order creates a window to supply a missing upload afterwards. A physical application is not considered at all: the portal's own notice states that only online applications will be considered, and asks anyone who has already sent a paper application to apply online instead.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

Nothing about this scheme renews. The period of internship cannot exceed three months, the order provides no mechanism to extend it, and completing one internship removes the candidate from the pool for good. Since a candidate may apply only once in a financial year, an internship that ends early cannot be resumed in the next session either.

What you get

Award & benefits

The headline is Rs 10,000 a month, but the money behaves like an attendance payment rather than a salary. Nothing at all is paid if the intern leaves before completing one month; after that, the amount is paid proportionately for the period served; and once absence passes three days in a month, the stipend is cut day for day for every day beyond the third. The first month is the cliff, and an intern who withdraws in the third week is paid nothing for the weeks worked.

Release is a paperwork chain rather than a payroll run. Divisions inside the Ministry proper forward authenticated attendance, in original, to the P.I Section, while organisations beyond the Ministry proper email that attendance with the intern's pre-receipt and bank details so the stipend reaches the intern's account directly (session memorandum, Summer Internship).

The completion certificate is the other benefit, and it is conditional in the same way. It is issued by the divisional head on a fixed format that records the dates worked, the officer supervised under, the areas covered and a rating of the report written, and an intern who does not serve the requisite period is issued none.

Everything else is at the intern's own cost. The Ministry and its formations provide working space, internet and what the head of division thinks necessary; the laptop, boarding, lodging, transport and stationery are the intern's to arrange.

• Stipend: The quantum of stipend to be paid to the Interns shall be ₹ 10,000/- per month.
• NOTE 1: No stipend shall be paid if the student leaves the internship before the completion of one month.
• NOTE 2: The amount of the stipend shall be paid proportionately depending upon the period of internship for the subsequent period of internship.
• NOTE 3: Absence of the Interns from attending the assigned task in the Ministry for more than 3 days in a month shall cause a deduction of stipend amount equivalent to the number of days in excess of 3 days.
• Experience Certificate: A Certificate regarding the successful completion of the Internship shall be issued by the Divisional Head of the concerned Division in the format as available in ‘Annexure-Il".
• NOTE 1: The Interns not completing the requisite period will not be issued any Certificate.
• Logistics & Support: The Interns will be required to have their own laptops: Ministry & its other formations will provide them with working space, Internet facility and other necessities as deemed fit by the concerned Head of the Division.
• Seminars/Presentations: Seminars/Presentations can be conducted by the concerned Heads of particular Divisions/Units for their interns.
• NOTE 1: Students/Trainees have to be made their own arrangements for boarding/lodging, transportation and stationery, etc.

What to prepare

Documents required

The uploads do not go up as one bundle. The photograph with the signature is submitted as an image file, and each supporting document goes up as a separate attachment through the form's attach more control, one file at a time.

The supervisor's letter and the No Objection Certificate do duty twice. They are uploaded with the application, and the order separately requires a selected candidate to produce, at the time of joining, a letter from the supervisor, head of department or principal confirming status in the institution and no objection for the period selected.

There is no proof of income, caste or domicile anywhere in the form, which is the practical difference between an internship order and a scholarship sanction.

Step by step

How to apply

Applications are taken online only, and only while the session's link is live on the Ministry's website.

The Ministry publishes a short standard operating procedure for it: open the internship address in a browser, click Apply Online, fill the personal and academic fields, attach each file separately, submit, and then click through to print the submitted application. That printout is the only receipt the process generates.

The decisions that matter are made in three consecutive dropdowns in the middle of the form: the ministry or institute category, the department inside it, and the discipline or area of interest. The order permits an application in one discipline only, and where more than one is somehow received for a candidate, the Ministry decides which discipline to nominate them in.

How to Check Where Your Application Stands

There is no applicant account. The portal carries a Log In link, but it resolves to an admin login page that asks for a user id and password, not a candidate dashboard, so nothing on the site tells an applicant that a file has moved.

Tracking therefore happens on the Ministry's side. The order says the list of selected candidates will be displayed on the website of the Ministry, and in practice that list appears as an office memorandum in the Ministry's updates archive, naming every nominated candidate with the discipline and the divisional head they are attached to (nomination memorandum, listed in the Ministry's updates archive).

That memorandum is also circulated to the nominated candidates by email, and it fixes the date and the hour by which they must report to their divisional head, with their own laptop.

How winners are picked

Selection process

Selection is run by the unit, not by a central board. Every online application is forwarded to the head of the vertical, unit or division it was addressed to. That head constitutes an Internal Scrutiny Committee of relevant subject experts, selects on merit in consultation with it, and the head's decision on a candidate is final.

The cap is what makes the odds local rather than national, and the order writes it twice in the same clause: a head of division or unit may take a maximum of two interns per discipline at a time, and each head may avail a maximum of two interns in the unit across the specified 22 disciplines. Read either way, the ceiling sits on the desk rather than on the scheme, so an application in a discipline whose places that unit has already committed goes nowhere however strong it is. The department chosen on the form therefore carries more weight than the marksheet uploaded with it.

The Ministry also keeps a reserve power over the process. Depending on how many applications a particular domain or area draws, it may fix the eligibility criteria, limit how many applicants are called for a period, and decide the mode of screening. The order itself names no written test and no interview, so unless that power is used, merit is read off the file as submitted.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

The intern owes one written deliverable. At the end of the assignment, a brief report or paper on the learning experience goes to the head of the division, and the head is personally responsible for seeing that the work programme agreed with the intern is actually completed.

Records stay on the Ministry's side. Attendance and the details of work supervision are maintained by the heads of the divisions and units, and the conduct of interns and their access to data is the sole responsibility of the concerned group heads. Heads may also run seminars or presentations for their interns.

One clause deserves reading before the form is filled. Interns have no claim to a job in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, or in any organisation under its administrative control or its other formations. Against that, the Secretary of the Ministry holds the power to relax any condition of the scheme, and the Ministry reserves the right to review the scheme and publish the revised version on its website.

Get help

Contact

The scheme is run out of the P.I Section of the Ministry at Indira Paryavaran Bhawan, Jor Bagh Road, New Delhi. Every session memorandum issues from there, and the order carries the Under Secretary's line at that address, 011-20819194, with moefcc@gov.in in the portal footer.

The portal also keeps a contact page of its own, naming an Under Secretary and a Section Officer at Prithivi Block in the same building, each with a direct telephone number and email address. Attendance is the thing worth knowing where to chase: a division inside the Ministry proper sends the authenticated record to the P.I Section, while a host organisation outside it emails its own, so an unpaid stipend is a question for whichever of the two the posting sits under.

Source

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Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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Scheme details are compiled from myScheme, the Government of India’s official scheme-discovery platform, and are reproduced without alteration. Amounts, deadlines and eligibility change between cycles, so always confirm on the official links above before applying. Expertie does not process applications or charge fees.

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