Ministry of Food Processing Industries Internship Scheme 2020 for UG, PG & PhD Students

About MoFPl Internship Scheme

Internship areas

• Mega Food Parks
• Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure
• Creation or Expansion of Food Processing/Preservation Capacities (Unit Scheme)
• Infrastructure for Agro-Processing Clusters
• Creation of Backward and Forward Linkages
• Operation Greens
• Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises
• Haxaed Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)
• Food Safety and Quality Assurance Infrastructure (FSSAI)
• Human Resources and Institutions (i.e. Research & Development, Promotional
• Activities, Skill Development and Strengthening of Institutions)
• Food Testing Laboratories (FTL)
• TUS
• Abattoir

Details of the Scheme

Eligibility criteria

1. Any national can apply for this internship.
2. The candidates must be completed or have appeared in any undergraduate/graduate/postgraduate/ PhD course in Food Technology or Food Engineering or Food Science or Agriculture or Horticulture or Biotechnology or Chemical Engineering or MBA in Rural Management or MBA in Supply Chain Management or M.Sc. with Food and Agriculture.
3. The applicants must have completed or appeared in the second year or 4th semester of the bachelor degree course from any recognised university or institution.
4. They must have secured at least 85% or equivalent marks in 12th class.
5. Graduate students who have completed or appeared in the first year or 2nd semester of post-graduation or pursuing research/ PhD must secure at least 70% or equivalent marks in graduation.
6. The student who has completed graduation or PG or appeared in the final exams are also eligible. They must secure a minimum of 70% aggregate marks in all the years/semesters of their graduation/ post-graduation.

Selection procedure

• All the applications received in each Head of Division/ Schemes by the due date will be scrutinized by the Director or Deputy Secretary of the concerned schemes in MoFPI.
• The selected candidates will have to submit the soft copy of their NOC from their Head of the Department/Principal before issuance of the offer letter. Original copy of NOC is required to be submitted at the time of the joining of the candidate.
• List of selected candidates will be uploaded on MoFPl's website by the concerned division/scheme.
• Eligibility criteria and limit the number of the applicants and screening mode can be fixed up by the MoFPI for a particular domain or area based upon the number of applications received.
• At the end of the internship, interns will have to prepare and submit a brief report or paper about their learning experience to the Head of the concerned Divisions/Schemes and Director or Deputy Secretary of the concerned schemes.
• Seminars or presentation can be held by the concerned Heads of particular Divisions/Schemes for their Interns.

Application procedure

• MoFPI accepts application from 1st to 10th of March, June, September and December every year. Currently, applications for the September month are open. However, applicants can apply only once in a financial year.
• Applications for this internship are accepted through email only. Interested candidates must visit the official website of MoFPI and check their eligibility before applying as the applications of the applicants not satisfying the eligibility requirements will not be considered.
• Application is to be filled on the prescribed format available at the official website (link is given below).
• The application must be filled carefully clearly indicating the area of interest and along with the requisite documents must be sent on the email ID: rehan.zaheer@nic.in.
• In the Subject line of the email must be written as:
  Subject- MoFPI lnternship-[Name of Applicant]-regarding.
• All the documents attached to the application must be self-attested.

Documents required at the time of joining

1. Original academic mark sheets
2. NOC from college/ institution

Important Dates

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