Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) Internship(SECOII)

Overview

About SECOII

Most government internships an Indian student meets are run from a ministry desk, on a scheme document a ministry issued. Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited runs this one out of its own HR department, on a policy its own Board of Directors approved, because SECI is a company rather than a department of government. That decides almost everything a candidate needs to know: when the form is open, what the discipline list looks like, who says yes, and how narrow the opening actually is.

SECI describes itself as a Navratna Central Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, established in 2011 to implement the National Solar Mission and now working across renewable project facilitation, development and power trading (SECI, What We Do). It runs tariff based reverse bidding for grid connected solar, wind and hybrid projects, signs the power purchase agreements behind them, and is the designated implementing agency for green hydrogen and offshore wind. An intern is placed inside that operating business rather than inside a policy secretariat.

The posting choices on the application form make the point plainly. The department dropdown offers Solar, HR and Admin, Finance, IT, Projects/PV/PS, Contracts and Procurement, Company Secretary, Corporate Planning and EMD (SECI Internship form). Those are SECI's own functional divisions, not thematic research areas, and a candidate picks one when applying rather than being allotted one afterwards.

The policy behind all of it was notified in December 2018, after SECI's Board approved it, and its stipend clause was rewritten by an amendment circular in October 2021. Both documents sit on SECI's own site, and the amendment is the one that matters most to a candidate, because a good deal of what still circulates about this internship online was written against the superseded text.

Who runs it

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At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

There is no annual notification and no advertised deadline for this internship. The application window repeats every month, from the 1st to the 10th, and the policy states that internships are available throughout the year according to SECI's requirements. A student choosing a start date should count backwards from that pattern: apply in one month's window, expect to begin in the next.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The policy opens the internship to students engaged in research, to Engineering graduate and postgraduate students, to PhD students in the renewable energy sector, and to CA, CS, ICWA, CMA and MBA students in HR, Finance, IT and corporate communication, enrolled at a recognised university or institution in India or abroad (SECI Internship Policy).

The operative version of that list is the discipline dropdown on the form, which is more specific than the summary most listings carry. It separates Engineering Graduate from Engineering Post Graduate, names CA, CS, ICWA and CMA individually, and splits the MBA option four ways into HR, Finance, IT and Corporate Communication. A candidate whose course does not map onto one of those entries has nothing to select.

What actually decides eligibility is whether the course is still running. The policy states that students who have completed their course, or who left it partway, are not eligible, and the form asks whether the applicant is pursuing or has completed, then asks for the current semester or year. SECI publishes no age limit and no minimum marks for the internship, though the form has a marks field and the policy tells the selecting head to prefer candidates with a good academic record.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

The scheme's public record leaves the exclusions field blank, so the two bars that end an application have to be read out of the policy clauses themselves. Clause 4 shuts out anyone who has completed the course or left it in between, which puts a fresh graduate outside the scheme from the day the degree is awarded. Clause 5 shuts out the repeat attempt: a candidate who has already applied in the current financial year cannot file again until the next one opens.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

The term is fixed at the front, by qualification, in the same clause of the policy that carries the stipend: three to six months for Engineering and M-Tech students, six months to three years for the CA, CS, ICWA and CMA streams, and seven weeks to six months for MBA students. Neither an extension of that term nor a second stint appears anywhere in the document. The applicant names the desired start and end dates on the form, so the length asked for at application is the length on offer.

What you get

Award & benefits

Clause 4 of the policy is headed Duration and Stipend Payable, and it is the clause that has moved. The 2018 text set a single flat monthly rate covering every stream it listed, from Engineering graduates through to MBA candidates. The amendment circular of October 2021 struck that sentence out and put two rates in its place, divided at the six month mark, with the higher rate attached to the longer placements. Listings that still quote one figure for this internship are quoting the withdrawn clause.

Nothing is added on top of the stipend. The policy states that the programme does not include compensation of any kind, boarding, lodging or transportation, and that no fee is charged to the intern. SECI supplies working space and an internet connection, and allows a desktop for interns from the CA, CS, ICWA, CMA and MBA streams where the work needs one. The laptop sits on the eligibility list rather than the facilities list: owning one is a condition of applying, not something the placement provides.

The certificate runs on a chain of confirmations, and it is worth tracing before accepting an offer. The Project Head or Mentor has to inform HR in writing that the project report is complete; HR then checks the attendance record and the work supervision details assigned by the Head of Department before it issues anything. An intern who walks out before the term ends is issued nothing at all, whatever the months already served.

• Stipend: For training periods less than 6 months: ₹8,000/- per month
• For training periods from 6 months to 3 years: ₹12,000/- per month
• Completion Certificate: HR issues a certificate upon successful completion of the internship, confirming attendance and work supervision.
• NOTE: The internship program does not include compensation of any kind, boarding, lodging, transportation etc.

What to prepare

Documents required

Only two documents are involved, and they are not submitted at the same time.

The resume goes in with the application, uploaded through the form itself as a PDF or DOC file under two megabytes. The letter from the institution is different: it confirms the applicant's standing there and records a No Objection to the internship, and the policy asks for it at the time training commences, not at the time of applying. A candidate does not need the letter in hand to submit the form, which matters when a college takes weeks to sign one.

Step by step

How to apply

Applications are online only, through the form at seci.co.in/internship, and the form is where the whole application lives. It asks for name as printed on the Class X certificate, father's name, date of birth, a current address with PIN code, a mobile number, an email address, the qualification written out in full, the educational status and semester or marks, one discipline, one department, a single area of interest, the desired start and end dates, and the resume upload.

The policy asks students to apply between the 1st and the 10th of a month, for an internship likely to begin the month after, so the calendar does more filtering on this programme than the eligibility list does. Outside those ten days there is nothing to submit.

SECI also keeps an older internship address at seci.co.in/seci-internship, which currently displays only the words Coming Soon, and search results still carry it. The live form is the one the Careers menu points at, seci.co.in/internship.

Tracking an application is not a portal function here, because SECI publishes no status page for internship applications. HR forwards what it receives to the concerned Heads of Departments, and once a head shortlists a candidate, HR sends that student the offer of internship directly. The email address typed into the form is therefore the channel the result arrives on, which is why the form's own instructions ask for an address that will stay valid for future communication.

How winners are picked

Selection process

HR never picks the interns. Every application it receives online is forwarded to the Head of the Department the candidate named, that head scrutinises the file, and the policy closes the clause by making the head's word on a candidate's suitability final. Preference, it adds, goes to applicants with a good academic record.

Capacity is the constraint nobody advertises. A Head of Department may hold up to three interns at a time, extended to six where the interns are Engineering, M-Tech, CA or CMA students. With nine departments on the dropdown and the form reopening every month, the place a candidate is really competing for is a slot on one named head's list, not a share of a national quota. The policy also lets SECI change the terms for a domain that draws too much interest, so a heavily subscribed area can quietly get a higher bar or a shorter call list.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

Interns execute a non-disclosure bond covering the data they are given access to, and are barred from passing on the contents of any file or paper that constitutes work product. Day to day authority sits with the assigned Project Head or Mentor, who holds administrative control and discipline over the intern for the term.

Two clauses cut in opposite directions. SECI may terminate an internship at any time, in its sole discretion, without notice and without cause. An intern who wants to leave must give seven working days' notice to the Project Head with HR informed, and forfeits the certificate by doing so. A separate clause closes the question the whole arrangement raises: the internship confers no claim or right to any employment in any office or establishment under the Corporation's administrative control.

Get help

Contact

The HR Department is the process owner for the programme, responsible for its design, its implementation and any later modification of it, with the department heads handling selection and supervision underneath that. No phone number or mailbox specific to the internship appears anywhere on the page that carries the form. What it does carry is the corporate contact block: 6th Floor, Plate-B, NBCC Office Block Tower-2, East Kidwai Nagar, New Delhi-110023, and corporate@seci.co.in (SECI Internship form).

Source

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Frequently asked questions

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