Economic, management students may work as interns at DEA under Finance Ministry

IF you are a post graduate with first division or a research scholar pursuing courses in management, economics or finance, here is a chance to enter the North Block and work as an intern in the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) which comes under the ministry of finance. In fact, DEA is the nodal government department, which carries out economic diplomacy and takes major economic decisions including the making of the Union Budget.

Objective

The internship programme will ensure interaction of the officers of the department of economic affairs with young scholars with brilliant academic background from reputed institutions. Also, for the interns this will give an opportunity to familiarize with the overall process of the formulation of economic policies of the government at the macro level.

The interns will be able to get a feel of the issues related to multilateral, bilateral and financial institutions, exchange management, foreign investment, monetary policy, fiscal policy, tariff policy, domestic regulations, inflation managemet, debt market etc.

Eligibility

Candidates pursuing post graduation, research courses in economic or finance management and 4^th and 5^th year of 5 year Integrated Courses in law from universities/institutions of national and international repute are eligible to apply provided:

* For post-gradution students, they should have obtained a first class gradaute degree;

* For research scholars pursuing courses in economics/finance/mangement, they should have obtained at least 50% in post-gradution;

* For students in the 4^th and 5^th year of 5 year intergrated law course should have obtained at least 80% marks in 12^th examination.

Duration

The duration of the internership will be two months at different points of time during 2012-13. However, no one will be allowed to do an intership between December and February, the typical months of the Budgte preparation.

Remuneration

Rs 5,000 per month, payable on satisfactory completion of their internship and on their sublission of the reports/paper. The successful interns will receive a certificate from the department.

How to Apply

The interested candidates need to send their applications along with their CVs in the prescribed format to Joint Secretary (Administration), Department of Economic Affairs, North Block, New Delhi

Last Date

January 16, 2012

For more details, kindly contact Ashok Kumar, Under Secretary at 011-23092872