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Fewer interns take up offers under PMIS-II
Business Standard
|December 16, 2025
Falling demand
Under the Prime Minister Internship Scheme (PMIS), the number of candidates accepting offers declined 12.4 per cent in the second round of the pilot programme over the first, according to the data shared by the government in Parliament on Monday.
The data showed that while 28,141 applicants accepted internship in round one, in the second phase this was down to 24,638.
While on the previous occasion, 34 percent of the offers made were accepted, it reduced to 29 per cent this time, even though the absolute number of offers went up slightly in the second phase, the data showed.
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