FM Urges India Inc To Step Up Participation In Internship Scheme

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman exhorted India Inc on Monday to step up their participation in the PM Internship Scheme (PMIS), hailing it as "a national cause".

- MANU KAUSHIK

The finance minister said that for a "country of our size", and with the objective that top 500 companies participate in the programme, there's still some way to go.

"I would appeal to industry to make sure that the rest of them — beyond 300 companies which have come forward — should also participate. This is a national cause. Nobody is expecting you to cut profit or face loss. The government is chipping in money. We need to give that confidence to our youth. We need our youth to understand what it takes to get into such top 500 companies if they ready themselves," Sitharaman said.