Internship is an integral platform to gain experience in actual workplace. It offers an opportunity to the interns towards orientation and hands-on experience/exposure in the concerned field. Learn through experience will be on priority at Internship programs. Theoretical knowledge gained can be experienced at practical/field level, thereby creating a holistic knowledge of the sector.
Fisheries is a sunrise sector in India providing sustainable livelihoods to millions of people thus contributing to food security and economic growth of the country. Government of India by realizing the potential of the sector has launched Prime Minister Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) for promotion of fisheries & aquaculture sector. For effective implementation of PMMSY activities in the country, a strong, motivated and professional cadre of human resources is required to be positioned at various levels to provide technical and managerial support to fishers / fish farmers and other stakeholders in the sector. This is possible only when young generation get orientation/ exposure to fisheries activities during college education. To get such exposure the National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) initiated the Internship programme. Few of the benefits of Internship at NFDB are as below: -
The Internship Programme (IP) inter-alia seeks to engage students those who have completed Graduate
/ Post Graduate Degree in Fisheries Science within India. These 'Interns" shall be given exposure to
various works/projects being carried out by various divisions of NFDB and its regional offices and in turn
it is expected to supplement the process of analysis within Board through empirical data collection and
collation of in-house and external information. For the "Interns" the exposure to the functioning of
Government Organization would be an add-on in furthering their future interests. Following are the few
areas of Internship at NFDB: -
For any queries on internship: Please send you queries to info info.nfdb@nic.in or ce.nfdb-dadf@gov.in