Government internship portals beyond AICTE: what NHRC, WCD and NCW publish

Which government bodies publish their own internship terms?

The National Commission for Women runs three internship schemes, and its instructions page sets them at ₹5,000 for a 30 day internship, ₹10,000 a month for a two month one, and ₹2,000 for a 30 day virtual one. The Ministry of Women and Child Development, the National Human Rights Commission and AICTE each publish their own terms on their own sites, in four different formats, and no one of those pages carries the terms of the others.

Each body decides its own eligibility, its own window and its own stipend, and none of them mirrors the others. If you are an LLB student who fits the NCW criteria, you may still be over the 28 year age limit that NHRC sets on its summer and winter programme alone. If you are on a diploma and fit neither, the AICTE route through your own institute may still be open.

Everything below is taken from those four pages as they stood on 18 September 2026. Windows shift from year to year on all of them, so the page itself is the authority on dates.

How do the four official routes compare?

Five things decide whether a route is usable: who runs it, who is allowed to apply, how long it runs, whether it pays, and whether you can do it from home. Those are the columns below, and nothing in the table is an assessment of quality.

Route	Who is eligible	Length	Stipend	Remote or in person
National Commission for Women, Scheme A	First year LLB (3 year course), third year of a 5 year LLB, or first year postgraduate in sociology, social work, women's or gender studies	30 days	₹5,000 for the 30 days	In person
National Commission for Women, Scheme B	Second year LLB (3 year course), fourth or fifth year integrated law, second year postgraduate in the social sciences, social work, women's or gender studies or psychology, or an LLM, MPhil or PhD student	2 months	₹10,000 a month	In person
National Commission for Women, Scheme C	Anyone meeting the Scheme A or Scheme B criteria	30 days	₹2,000 for the 30 days	Virtual
Ministry of Women and Child Development	Women aged 21 to 40 from outside eight Tier 1 cities, enrolled in or associated with a university, academic or non-academic institution	2 months	₹20,000 a month	In person, Delhi
NHRC short term internship	Students from various streams, especially law	15 days	Not stated on the programme page	Announced as online in the page's notices
NHRC summer or winter internship	LLB second or third year, integrated law fourth or fifth year, LLM, or postgraduates in listed social science subjects, up to 28 years	4 weeks	₹12,000 plus third AC train fare	In person, Delhi
AICTE internship portal	Students of AICTE approved technical institutes, through their own college	Set by the credit requirement	Set by the host	Set by the host

What does the National Commission for Women publish?

Three schemes, a marks bar and a quarterly calendar. Scheme A is a 30 day internship paying ₹5,000 and Scheme C a 30 day virtual one paying ₹2,000, so on each the amount is a single payment for the period, not a monthly rate. Only Scheme B, at two months, pays ₹10,000 every month. Scheme C is open to anyone meeting the Scheme A or Scheme B criteria, and every scheme asks for at least 60% in Class XII and in each semester after it.

Applications go in online by quarter. The quarters are January to March, then April to June, then July to September, then October to December, and the cutoff for any of them is the 10th of the preceding month, so a slot in the April to June quarter closes on 10 March. Selection weighs the percentage you obtained at 50% and the quality of your statement of purpose at 50%.

The conditions attached are worth reading before you accept. Attendance of at least 90% applies to the physical internship, you bring your own laptop, a diary of each day's work is compulsory, a confidentiality declaration has to be signed, and no stipend is paid at all if you work for less than the period the scheme specifies.

How does the Ministry of Women and Child Development internship work?

It runs two months, pays ₹20,000 a month, is open only to women, and takes up to 20 interns per batch. You must be aged 21 to 40, currently studying at or attached to a university or another institution, academic or not, and from outside the Tier 1 cities, which the ministry's internship page lists as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Pune. Students, scholars, social activists and teachers are all named as applicants.

Applications are taken online between the 1st and the 10th of March, June, September and December, each window feeding a batch that starts two months later, so the March window fills the May to June batch. Travel to join and to return is reimbursed, at Deluxe or AC bus or third AC train fare, and a triple sharing room at the Working Women Hostel in Jasola Vihar is offered, meals excluded.

Two rules catch people out. Leave is not granted except on medical or unavoidable grounds, and the page rules out leave taken to appear for an examination. A candidate selected once is not eligible for a later term, and the ministry states that the offer of an internship is not an offer of a job or a commitment of any future job.

Is the NHRC internship online?

One of the two has been run that way. The short term internship runs 15 days and is offered across the year except in May, June, December and January, taking students from several streams with a stated preference for law. The notices on that page announce an online short term internship programme and carry the shortlist for each cycle, though the most recent of them are from 2024, when that online cycle ran from 29 April to 10 May.

The other one is not. NHRC's summer and winter internship is four weeks in person in Delhi, held in June and July and again in December and January, with about 80 interns per session and a stipend of ₹12,000 plus third AC train fare from the candidate's educational institution to Delhi and back.

The offline programme publishes its scoring. Merit is worked out over 100 marks: 30 for Class XII, 40 for graduation and 30 for a write-up of 300 to 500 words. You need at least 65% in Class XII and in every semester since, a place at a UGC recognised university, an age of no more than 28, and no earlier regular one month internship with the Commission.

Where does the AICTE portal fit?

It is a route through your college rather than a scheme you apply to directly. The AICTE Internship Policy, dated 2 April 2019 only in its filename, encourages technical institutes to use AICTE's Internship Portal for arranging and managing internships, and it proposes the credit framework that gives internship work academic weight.

The framework proposes 10 to 14 credits for a three year diploma and 14 to 20 for a B.Tech or B.E., counting internship, entrepreneurial activity, project work, seminars and training inside or between institutions. One credit is at least 45 hours, which the policy works out as a minimum of roughly 630 hours over the degree and 450 hours over the diploma.

The portal runs the process in a set order. You browse and apply, the industry selects you and approves a provisional offer on the portal, your institute's training and placement cell issues a No Objection Certificate that you send to the industry supervisor, and the supervisor then issues the final offer letter. The portal also carries the daily log that the policy expects interns to keep.

What about MyGov?

MyGov is the Government of India's citizen engagement platform, and on 18 September 2026 its home page carried no internship listing. The official internship routes are published by the ministries and commissions themselves, on their own sites, which is why the four above are each on a different domain.

If you came looking for a single government internship portal in India covering every department, none of the routes here is that page. The PM Internship Scheme portal, run by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs since its launch on 3 October 2024, and AICTE's portal for technical students each cover only their own set. The guide to PM Internship Scheme eligibility covers the first of those.

Can you apply if you are not a law student?

Yes, on all four, though each draws its line somewhere different. NCW takes first year postgraduates in sociology, social work, women's studies or gender studies into Scheme A, and second year postgraduates in the social sciences or psychology, along with LLM, MPhil and PhD students, into Scheme B. The WCD programme names students, scholars, social activists and teachers without restricting the subject at all. AICTE's portal is for students of approved technical institutes, so the stream question there is settled by your college.

NHRC's offline programme names the most subjects of the four. Alongside LLB and LLM students it takes postgraduate diploma and master's students in human rights, political science, sociology, social work, criminology, public administration, rural development, history, economics, commerce, anthropology, mass communication and international relations.

If you are on a general B.Com or B.Sc, your list here is the shortest. NCW and NHRC both set eligibility by course and year, and neither list reaches a general undergraduate degree, while AICTE's portal covers approved technical institutes only. The WCD route stays open if you are a woman aged 21 to 40 studying outside the eight Tier 1 cities. Past that, the official option is the PM Internship Scheme or a college arranged placement.

Which window opens next, and how do you not miss it?

Put the four calendars on one page and the year stops looking empty. NCW closes each quarter's applications on the 10th of the month before that quarter starts. WCD opens for ten days at the start of March, June, September and December. NHRC's short term programme skips May, June, December and January.

NHRC's own two pages date its offline season differently: the summer and winter page puts its sessions in June and July and again in December and January, while the short term page, explaining its own gaps, puts the same offline season in May and June and again in December and January. On the summer and winter page's dates, July is a month both programmes could run and May a month when neither does; the short term page's account differs, so check whichever page you are applying through.

AICTE placements follow your own semester calendar instead. Work backwards from the closest window rather than forwards from today. A statement of purpose that carries half the marks at NCW, or 30 of NHRC's 100, is not a piece of writing to start the night before. Both of those bodies screen on marks from Class XII onward, so have your semester marksheets scanned before a window opens.

Which listing route suits you is the wider question, and it is answered in the guide to online internship listings in India. If the civil services are the longer plan, read the guide to the UPSC Detailed Application Form and what it asks about your activities after that.

What these routes will not tell you

Numbers of applicants. None of the four pages opened here publishes how many people apply against how many are taken, so none of them lets you work out your odds. NHRC states about 80 seats per session for the offline programme and WCD states up to 20 per batch, which is the closest any of them come to a number.

They are also quiet after you apply. NHRC posts the shortlist for each cycle as a downloadable notice on the programme page, and none of these four pages says in advance when a result will appear or whether unsuccessful applicants are told. If waiting is what is wearing you down, the guide on what happens after you apply and hear nothing deals with that directly.

Eligibility drifts too. Each of these pages is the authority on its own current cycle, and a version you read last year may not describe this one. Open the page before you apply, every time.