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GUIDES ▪ INDIA

What the rulebook
says about your internship.

36 guides on AICTE and NEP mandates, fieldwork hours, NOC letters, school service hours and how to spot a fake offer. Each one cites the circular, regulation or statute it draws on, so you can check it yourself.

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Read these first if you are not sure where to begin. They cover the mandate, the paperwork, the fakes and the school-level rules.

Wide lineup of kids and volunteers with mustard fields behind — scene-setting contextCollege mandatesIs a B.Tech Internship Mandatory, and Who Enforces It?AICTE makes internship compulsory as a condition of your college's approval, while the credit that decides your graduation is written in your university's ordinance. This follows the requirement from the first document you ask for to the grade card at the end.8 min read · 20 sourced claimsTeen volunteer distributing footwear to village women, golden light, real exchangeOnline & scamsHow to Spot a Fake Internship Offer in IndiaWhat a real internship offer costs at each stage, and the free checks that test one against official records, costing nothing but a search and a phone call. Includes the two reports that are specific to internships.8 min read · 17 sourced claimsBehind-the-scenes: volunteers climbing onto a painted truck to unload ration sacksSelf-arrangedBonafide Certificate for Internship: The Five-Document ChainThe bonafide certificate, the NOC, the introduction letter, the host's confirmation and the completion certificate, taken from four published university internship documents and two central host schemes. Which office issues each one, what it has to contain, and what to do when nobody will sign.11 min read · 21 sourced claimsKids holding notebooks aloft in a golden-hour courtyard, high energy.School studentsCBSE SEWA Explained: Who Does It and What Gets LoggedA finished SEWA file holds six documents: a parent-signed promise form, an hourly schedule, a mentor-countersigned hour log, a reflection after every four hours, a mentor observation and a self-appraisal. What CBSE requires for Classes IX to XII, what is excluded, how the 25 marks are awarded, and why Classes 6 to 8 are a different requirement.9 min read · 24 sourced claims
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SEVA ▪ 2026

5 guides

College internship mandates (technical and professional degrees)

B.Tech, BBA, MBA and the other degrees where the internship is compulsory: what AICTE, NEP and your university actually require.

  1. 01AICTE's Internship Policy for Engineering Students, ExplainedThe document behind every college internship rule for engineering students, tested claim by claim against what it says: credits, hours, hosts, leave, grading and Activity Points. It also shows where the policy stops and your university's ordinance takes over.10 min read
  2. 02AICTE's National Internship Portal, Step by StepAICTE's National Internship Portal is free on both sides, open to non-AICTE colleges, and screens organisations at registration rather than posting by posting. Eight steps run from the registration form to the offer, each with the AICTE page or government document that states the rule.11 min read
  3. 03Is a B.Tech Internship Mandatory, and Who Enforces It?AICTE makes internship compulsory as a condition of your college's approval, while the credit that decides your graduation is written in your university's ordinance. This follows the requirement from the first document you ask for to the grade card at the end.8 min read
  4. 04Is the NEP 2020 Internship Mandatory? None of Its Three Paragraphs Sets an HourA row reading "Internship (as per NEP 2020), 2 credits, 60 hours" is assembled from three documents, and only one of them can be held against a student. This guide takes that credit line apart fragment by fragment and names the document behind each number.7 min read
  5. 05The College Internship NOC: What the Letter Has to SayNeither the AICTE Internship Policy nor UGC's 2023 undergraduate internship guidelines defines a college internship NOC or publishes a format for one. Which letter you need depends on who is asking: a scheme with its own proforma, a host that named no form, or your own college.8 min read
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MUSKAAN ▪ 2022

5 guides

Online internships: scams, verification and legitimacy

Before you accept a remote offer, pay a fee, or trust a certificate: how to check, and what to do when it goes wrong.

  1. 01Does an Online Internship Count Toward Your UGC Credit Requirement?The UGC guidelines behind the mandatory undergraduate internship set hours, a mentor, a supervisor and an evaluation, but never a location. Remote credit is lost to attendance gaps, missed approvals and a second rulebook, not to any ban.8 min read
  2. 02How to Spot a Fake Internship Offer in IndiaWhat a real internship offer costs at each stage, and the free checks that test one against official records, costing nothing but a search and a phone call. Includes the two reports that are specific to internships.8 min read
  3. 03How to Verify an Internship Offer Letter Before AcceptingWhich number belongs on the letter depends on what the employer is, and each one has a public government lookup behind it. This guide opens with that table, then works through what each row settles and what it leaves open.9 min read
  4. 04Internship Registration Fee in India: How the Scam WorksWho actually decides whether a registration, training or security fee is fraud, and what each of them can and cannot do about it. Covers your bank, the 1930 helpline network, the police, the courts and the consumer route for a paid programme.7 min read
  5. 05Is an Unpaid Internship Legal in India?Indian wage law obliges employers to pay employees, and neither the Code on Wages, 2019 nor the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 uses the word intern. This page shows where the stipend obligation genuinely exists, and what an unpaid intern is still owed.13 min read
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SEVA ▪ 2026

4 guides

Fieldwork and community-service requirements (social work, psychology, NSS)

MSW and BSW fieldwork hours, the psychology practicum, NSS certificates, and what counts as an eligible agency.

  1. 01MSW Field Work Diary Format: How to Write Each EntryA worked specimen entry, the difference between process and summary recording, and who at your department decides each of them. Drawn from the field work manuals of IGNOU, Jamia Millia Islamia, the University of Madras and Loyola College, and from Pondicherry University's 2025 MSW syllabus.14 min read
  2. 02MSW Fieldwork Hours: What Five Universities Put in WritingThe weekly hours, the semester minimum, the block placement days and the attendance floors, taken from the syllabi and field work manuals of five Indian universities. Plus what the UGC's 2025 regulations leave to your department, and what to do when yours publishes nothing.11 min read
  3. 03NSS Certificate Hours: Where 120, 240 and the Camp FitThe 120-versus-240 confusion settled from the NSS Manual and the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Annual Report, clause by clause. Then the camp length two official documents disagree on, where the hours have to be written down, and what the certificate itself records.11 min read
  4. 04What Makes an Organisation Eligible to Host MSW Field Work StudentsThe university's social work department decides whether an organisation can host MSW field work students. Four published manuals show where departments agree and where they part company.11 min read
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IMPACT ▪ 2022

5 guides

Arranging your own placement when the college will not

When the college says find your own host and the paperwork is on you: bonafide letters, NOCs, and which hosts qualify.

  1. 01B.Voc Internship: Who Can Host Your On-the-Job Training HoursThe UGC scheme states no hour count for B.Voc on-the-job training; the Qualification Pack and your university's syllabus do. This is how to read both, and what a host organisation has to be able to certify.8 min read
  2. 02Bonafide Certificate for Internship: The Five-Document ChainThe bonafide certificate, the NOC, the introduction letter, the host's confirmation and the completion certificate, taken from four published university internship documents and two central host schemes. Which office issues each one, what it has to contain, and what to do when nobody will sign.11 min read
  3. 03Psychology Practicum Without a Hospital Tie-UpThe general psychology internship and the RCI-licensed clinical practicum are two different requirements, and only one of them needs a hospital. What UGC sets in hours and credits, which organisations qualify as a host, and what a student may and may not be asked to do.9 min read
  4. 04The Compulsory Law Internship: Rule 25, and Who Is Allowed to Host YouRule 25 makes an internship a condition of the law degree, and one university's regulation made under it names non-governmental organisations first among the places that count. What the weeks are, what an NGO can and cannot certify, and where to apply when your college runs no placement drive.9 min read
  5. 05The Self-Arranged BBA and B.Com Summer InternshipThe four to six weeks between one semester's examinations and the next semester's classes carry credits, and no office on campus is open to arrange them. What the published frameworks fix, which organisations count as hosts, and what the certificate and report have to contain.10 min read
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SEVA ▪ 2026

6 guides

Distance and open-university placements you must arrange yourself

IGNOU, NSOU, Annamalai, KSOU, YCMOU and DU SOL learners whose programme has a field component nobody arranges for them.

  1. 01Annamalai University MSW: The Field Work Nobody Arranges For YouThe second semester of Annamalai University's distance MSW carries a 20-day field work placement, and the guideline puts the job of finding the agency and the supervisor on the student. Here is what the published document requires, what it leaves unsaid, and what to put in the email you send an organisation.10 min read
  2. 02IGNOU MARD Project Work: Finding a Village and a SupervisorMRDP-001 carries 12 of MARD's 66 credits and has to be built on field work in a rural area, yet no IGNOU document says who is supposed to give you access to that village. This follows the project from topic to submission and names the failure point at each step.9 min read
  3. 03KSOU MSW: What Is Recognised, and Who Sets the Field PlacementThe recognition record for KSOU's social work degrees, read off the Distance Education Bureau's own programme list, and what the 2020 ODL regulations do and do not fix about a supervised field placement. Includes the Karnataka-only limit on study centres and what to put in writing before you accept an agency.8 min read
  4. 04NSOU MSW Field Work: The 30 Days You Arrange YourselfNetaji Subhas Open University tells MSW learners to start field work roughly eight months in, then leaves them to find a host, a supervisor and a signature on their own. This is the sequence, the two no-permission routes and the two documents you cannot get after you leave.9 min read
  5. 05The DU SOL MBA Summer Internship, Read Backwards From the DeadlineThe DU SOL MBA carries an eight-week summer training requirement that gates promotion to the second year, and the learner has to find the host. Here is what the prospectus fixes, what it leaves out, and the calendar counted backwards from the report deadline.7 min read
  6. 06YCMOU MSW and BSW: What the Recognised Lists ShowA search for an MSW at Maharashtra's open university returns fee circulars and coaching directories, not the one fact that decides everything: the degree is not on the university's list. Here is what the register shows instead, and who is supposed to arrange the field work once you enrol somewhere that does teach it.8 min read
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MUSKAAN ▪ 2026

6 guides

School students, minors and service hours

CBSE SEWA, IB CAS, parental consent, and what a student under 18 can legally do.

  1. 01CBSE SEWA Explained: Who Does It and What Gets LoggedA finished SEWA file holds six documents: a parent-signed promise form, an hourly schedule, a mentor-countersigned hour log, a reflection after every four hours, a mentor observation and a self-appraisal. What CBSE requires for Classes IX to XII, what is excluded, how the 25 marks are awarded, and why Classes 6 to 8 are a different requirement.9 min read
  2. 02Does a Minor's Internship in India Legally Require Parental Consent?Indian labour law sets ages, hazardous-work bans and hours for a 14-to-18-year-old intern, and asks no parent to sign anything. This page works through what goes wrong instead: the form read as authorisation, the wrong statute quoted, and the fields left blank.12 min read
  3. 03Does Babysitting Count as IB CAS Service Hours? What Counts, and What Your Portfolio NeedsPaid sitting fails the IB's published definition of service and household care is the case the IB never rules on, while unpaid childcare through an organisation can count. The four published conditions, and the evidence that survives a coordinator's questions.11 min read
  4. 04Does IB CAS Still Require a Minimum Number of Hours?The 150-hour CAS total appears in no public IB document; the 150 in the subject brief is the recommended teaching hours for a standard level subject. What the IB fixes is seven outcomes, one month-long project and 18 months.10 min read
  5. 05Is It Legal for a 16- or 17-Year-Old to Intern in India?A 16- or 17-year-old counts as an adolescent under India's child labour statute and may intern in any role outside a three-item hazardous Schedule. What the law caps is hours, night work and the records the host organisation has to keep.12 min read
  6. 06Volunteering vs. Internship: Which Legal Rules Apply to a School Student in India?“Internship” and “volunteering” are defined in neither the Code on Wages, 2019 nor the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, so the label on a school student's placement settles nothing. What decides it is whether the student is being permitted to work, and which side of fourteen they sit on.9 min read
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IMPACT ▪ 2022

5 guides

Understanding the NGO sector and social-sector careers

What the sector pays, how it is funded, how to verify an organisation, and whether a social-sector career is for you.

  1. 01Does an NGO Job in India Pay Well? What the Rate Cards ShowThree central government schemes publish exactly what they will fund an NGO post at, from ₹6,250 to ₹60,000 a month. Those schedules, the grant calendar behind them and the FCRA cap on administrative spending explain most of the pay gap between one NGO and the next.14 min read
  2. 02How Indian NGOs Are Funded: CSR, 80G, Grants, FCRADonations, CSR, government grants and foreign contributions are governed by four different laws, and each one dictates who may give and what the money may buy. Each source forces a different filing into existence, and those filings are what settle where a specific NGO's money actually comes from.12 min read
  3. 03How to Build a Career in India's Social SectorA seven-step order of operations for entering India's development sector, with the statute, the council list or the programme page behind each step. It covers what is licensed, what is not, and where the openings are posted.10 min read
  4. 04How to Check If an NGO in India Is Genuine: Four RecordsA four-record verification pass for any Indian NGO, built from what the NPO Darpan portal, a state Charity Commissioner's register and the national cybercrime portal actually publish. Includes what each record proves, what it cannot prove, and where to complain.13 min read
  5. 05NGO Internship vs Corporate Internship: What Really DiffersAICTE puts an NGO, a government body and a company in one row of its credit table, and UGC’s undergraduate guidelines never distinguish hosts by type, so the choice is not about academic value. It is about signatures, supervision and what you can name at the viva.10 min read
How these guides are made

267

distinct primary sources (circulars, regulations, statutes and university handbooks) linked in the text where each rule is stated.

September 2026

is when the sources were last opened and checked. Each guide carries its own date, and rules that change yearly are marked.

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