The present study mainly focuses on the internship opportunities available to the students of Nagpur city who are perusing graduation as well as post-graduation in the faculty of commerce and management. In today’s competitive words internship become very essential for students for getting professional knowledge and practical exposure. The NEP-2020 policy of government also insisting on improving practical knowledge of students by offering on-the-job training, field project and community engagement projects in their syllabi. There are many advantages as well as disadvantages of this internship for the students hence; this research paper tries to throw the light on positive and negative impact of internship on students.
The aims and objectives of this research paper are to see internship opportunities available to the students of Nagpur city or not, how students see towards the internship, how students participate in internship programmes, what are the benefits of internship to the students, how internship is beneficial for career growth of the students and what are the problems students face while doing internship. The present study is analytical and descriptive type. This research is based on primary data collected from the 192 students of Nagpur city who are perusing their graduation and post-graduation in commerce and management faculty. The data is collected through the structures and semi-structured questionnaires. The convenience method of sampling has been used for this research paper. The secondary data from the previous published papers, government reports, websites etc. have been studied for secondary data.
The analysis of collected data and hypothesis testing have been done by using statistical test tools like percentage, mean, mode and Chi-Square method has used.
The finding of study shows that students of Nagpur city face the difficulties at the time of getting internship related to their subjects. There are little less opportunities available to the students of internship because of less participation of reputed companies in internship providing. This study finds that students are keen interested in participating of internship opportunities because they know the internship provides practical knowledge, communication skills, confidence, discipline, professionalism, employability skills and better employment opportunities. They know internship is very essential for them but at the same time they face the difficulties of time management, adjustment of studies along with internship and problem of transportation.
The study concludes that the internship is beneficial for the students but right internship opportunities are not available for them. The role of college is very essential in finding internship and makes them understand the importance of internship. It also suggests that the colleges, companies and policy make should work in co-ordination to improve the internship opportunities to students and provide better learning opportunities to students.