The Department of Legal Affairs in the Ministry of Law and Justice announced a set of guidelines to provide internship training to Law students from the National Law Schools across the country.

A committee was constituted by the Ministry to frame guidelines for providing training to interns from the Law schools. This committee comprised of Mr. Mohan Prasaran, Ld. Additional Solicitor General; Professor (Dr.) K.N. Chandrasekharan Pillai, Director, Indian Law Institute and Mr. K.D. Singh, the then Additional Secretary in the Department of Legal Affairs.

As per the instructions laid down, the National Law Schools would be requested by the Department of Legal Affairs to nominate students of the 4th or the 5th year of LLB course. In some exceptional cases, the 3rd year students may also be considered. No financial assistance will be provided by the Government to students who are accepted for internship training and the internship will be for a minimum duration of about four weeks.

Selected interns would be required to either work exclusively for the Central Agency Section (CAS) of the Department of Legal Affairs in assisting the Government panel counsels in drafting pleadings, preparation of case analysis and other types of legal work undertaken in the CAS.

Further some of the interns would also be allocated, subject to the exigencies of the work of the Central Agency Section, to work as interns under Union Law Officers, including Attorney General for India, Solicitor General of India and Additional Solicitors General of India.

Moreover on completion of the internship training, students will be given certificate, issued by an authorized officer of the Department of Legal Affairs to the concerned internee on the basis of the certificate signed by the officer under whom the internship was organized.