Programme For Internship For LL.B./ LL.M./ Environmental Studies/ Research Students(PFIFLLESRS)

Overview

About PFIFLLESRS

The National Green Tribunal runs this internship out of its own registry. On myScheme the scheme is filed under the Department of Legal Affairs in the Ministry of Law and Justice, which is where the Tribunal sits administratively, but the form goes to the Tribunal's Registrar General and the competent authority that approves each offer works inside the Tribunal.

What the internship is, on the guidelines the Tribunal publishes: a full time placement, ordinarily four weeks long, attended physically, with the intern working under a registry officer. The stated purpose is practical exposure to how a quasi judicial body functions, including the provisions of the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 and the National Green Tribunal (Practices and Procedure) Rules, 2011, alongside the filing, listing and maintenance of judicial records and the proceedings themselves.

Interns name the bench they want. New Delhi is the Principal Bench; Pune, Bhopal, Kolkata and Chennai are the western, central, eastern and southern zonal benches, and the application form carries a preference box for all five.

myScheme and the Tribunal's own website are quoting different rulebooks at each other. What myScheme reproduces is the older programme note, signed by a Deputy Registrar (Judicial), pinned to fixed calendar deadlines and silent about the zonal benches. The guidelines the Tribunal now hosts are longer, are signed by the Registrar General, and are what the registry works from where the two part company. Environmental studies names a discipline the applicant may be studying, in either version, rather than a research theme the Tribunal hands out; the paper an intern may be asked to present is on a selected topic neither document defines.

Who runs it

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At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

The Tribunal keeps two ordinary windows. The Summer Internship Programme runs in March, April, May and July ordinarily, and the Winter Internship Programme in November, December and January ordinarily. The application form's own month box repeats this as March to July excluding June, and November to January. An internship ordinarily commences on the first working day of the internship month, or on whatever date the competent authority sets.

Against that calendar, the standing deadline is relative: the form goes in one month before the commencement month. The older note reproduced on myScheme still shows the two fixed dates it used to run on, the first of February for the summer programme and the first of October for the winter one, and a student planning around those alone is planning around a superseded document.

The Tribunal also opens rounds outside the ordinary windows by circular. Its announcements list carries a circular dated 30.07.2026 for an internship at the Principal Bench in New Delhi in the month of September, 2026, with applications invited in the prescribed form by e-mail or by post. That call has closed. Its last date fell in the middle of August 2026, and as of early September 2026 no fresh internship circular has appeared on that list, which puts the next realistic application against the November to January window.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Two groups qualify, and only two. A student pursuing any course in Environmental Studies at a recognised college, law school or university is eligible on that ground alone. A law student is eligible as a law student, and the guidelines add a stated preference by year of study: the third year or later of a five year law programme, or the second year or later of a three year programme.

The scheme record compresses the two groups into a single line about law degree courses in environmental studies or law, which reads as though a law degree were the only door in; the guidelines list the environmental studies student first, and separately.

That preference is not written as a bar. A second year student on the five year course is not shut out on the face of the guidelines, only ranked behind a third year one, and the older note the myScheme entry reproduces asked for nothing more than enrolment in a three year or five year law degree course.

No marks threshold appears in either document. The application form still asks for the marks or CGPA obtained in every year of the course so far, and asks law applicants whether they have studied Environmental Law and in which semester, so the registry has that record in front of it while it scrutinises.

Streams outside Environmental Studies and law are out. Engineering, commerce and the rest are not covered by the eligibility clause, and nothing in the guidelines opens a discretionary door for them.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

Nothing in the guidelines is headed disqualification; the bars sit inside the application clause, the discontinuation clause and the declaration a student signs at the foot of the form. An application reaching the registry after the last date may not be considered, and the guidelines add that no correspondence will be entertained about it, except in a case of exigency. An incomplete application is not entertained at all. The declaration at the foot of the application form has the student certify that they have no academic commitments in college during the proposed internship period, which quietly rules out anyone whose semester is running through the month they are asking for. And after an internship begins, violating any of the conditions discontinues it without prior notice, with the intern's conduct liable to be reported to their college or university.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

Four weeks leaves nothing to renew, and the guidelines create no continuing entitlement. They do create a second attempt: a student whose application was scrutinised but who did not receive an offer letter is expressly competent to apply again for the internship. Whether someone who has already completed an internship at the Tribunal may return for another is not addressed either way in the current guidelines or in the older note.

What you get

Award & benefits

No stipend, and no expenses either. The current guidelines carry a heading of their own on this, saying the internship is unpaid and that interns must bear their own cost of lodging, transport and food. The older note put it more briefly, that the Tribunal pays no remuneration or expenses, so the two agree here even where they part company elsewhere. Anyone travelling to Delhi or a zonal city for this is funding the whole month themselves.

What an intern receives is access and a document. Each is placed under the supervision of a registry officer and completes the assigned tasks under that officer's guidance, and the older note went further and spoke of a guide assigned to each intern for their study. On satisfactory completion, after the report has been submitted and presented, a certificate of internship is awarded. Full attendance is part of what satisfactory means, so the certificate is not a formality.

• A certificate will be issued to the Intern at the end of her/his internship after evaluation of the research paper or assessment of the work done.
• A guide will be assigned to each intern for their study during the internship.
• The National Green Tribunal pays no remuneration/expenses.

What to prepare

Documents required

The prescribed application form is the document, and the Tribunal supplies it as the last two pages of the same guidelines file. It travels with a College ID card.

The form asks for more than a covering note would. Alongside name, current and permanent address, mobile number, e-mail and institution, it wants the student ID number, the present Head of Department's name and contact number, and a year by year table of examinations passed with the degree and the marks or CGPA against each. It asks for extracurricular, community and volunteer activities. It asks whether academic credit is being claimed for the internship, which month is wanted, and which bench. Then it asks two written answers, one describing the type of work the Tribunal is engaged in and one setting out the applicant's objectives and the duties they anticipate, before the declaration and signature.

The older note required one thing the current form does not repeat: a recommendation or no objection letter from the applicant's Director or Head of Department, produced after the office had sent an intimation. The current form asks instead for that officer's name and contact number, which the registry can act on directly. Carrying the letter anyway costs an applicant nothing.

Step by step

How to apply

The application moves by e-mail or on paper, never through a portal. The completed form and the College ID card go to the Office of the Registrar General, National Green Tribunal, Principal Bench, and the guidelines allow post, delivery by hand, or e-mail to admn.ngt@nic.in. The Tribunal's contact page gives the registry's address as Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi, 110001.

The e-mail address has moved, and this is the part worth checking twice. myScheme and the older programme note both give rg.ngt@nic.in, the Registrar General's own address. The guidelines now on the Tribunal's site and the circular it issued in July 2026 both give admn.ngt@nic.in. The current address is the safer one to use, and nothing prevents an applicant from copying both.

Timing is set by a rule rather than a date. Interested students are asked to send the form one month prior to the commencement month of the internship, which replaces the two fixed calendar deadlines the older note ran on.

Tracking happens to you rather than through you. Every application that arrives on time and in proper format is scrutinised, and the outcome reaches the selected students as an actual offer letter, sent subject to the availability of a slot and the approval of the competent authority. Neither document promises an acknowledgement, a reference number or a screen to check, so the e-mail address written on the form is the single channel an answer can arrive through, and it should be one the applicant will still be reading during the vacation. Silence is not a formal rejection; the guidelines simply treat the absent offer letter as the outcome and let that student apply again.

How winners are picked

Selection process

Scrutiny first, then a slot. Applications received on time and in the proper format are scrutinised, and the actual offer goes to the selected students subject to slot availability and the competent authority's approval. How many slots exist is left deliberately open: both documents say the maximum number to be offered shall be decided by the competent authority, and no figure has ever been printed in either.

The preference by year of study is the only ranking rule stated anywhere. Neither document describes an interview, a written test, a merit list or a published cut off, so an applicant is being read on the form itself, which is an argument for taking the two written answers on it seriously rather than filling them in as an afterthought.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

The conditions are heavier than four weeks might suggest. Office timing is 09:30 AM to 05:00 PM, subject to the directions of the competent authority, and interns mark daily attendance with the personal assistant of the officer in charge, recording the time of arrival and the time of departure. No leave is granted during the entire internship period, and leaves are not considered even against the certificate except in a case of extreme exigency.

There is a dress code, written into the guidelines rather than left to convention: formal black trousers with a black blazer and a plain white shirt, with a white suit and black blazer given as the alternative for women. Mobile phones are to be used minimally, and not at all during court proceedings or while working.

At the end of the programme every intern submits a detailed report on the experience and the work undertaken at the Tribunal, and the guidelines go as far as fixing its length, type size and line spacing. On the last day the intern presents a brief overview of what the month taught them, based on that report.

Two obligations reach past the last day. Interns must maintain confidentiality about the work they see and uphold the integrity of the Tribunal. And a research paper an intern is asked to present remains the intellectual property of the Tribunal, which interns cannot use without the Tribunal's prior approval, so a student hoping to fold the work into a college dissertation should read that clause before settling on a topic.

Get help

Contact

Both the application and any question about it go to the Office of the Registrar General, National Green Tribunal, Principal Bench, at Faridkot House on Copernicus Marg in New Delhi. The e-mail address in the current guidelines and in the July 2026 circular is admn.ngt@nic.in, while myScheme and the older programme note still show rg.ngt@nic.in.

That difference is not arbitrary, and the Tribunal's contact page shows why. It lists an Administration desk apart from the general registry, on 011-23043521 with a fax of 011-23043515, and puts admn.ngt@nic.in against that desk. The general line is 011-23043528 with 011-23077931 as its fax. An internship form is administration work, which is the line to ring if a posted application has to be chased, since the registry offers no other acknowledgement channel.

Bench preference is one line of the form's office information block rather than a separate request, and the Principal Bench registry stays the addressee whichever bench a student asks for.

Source

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Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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Disclaimer

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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