**Executive Summary**
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports launched a Comprehensive Internship Policy for the Ministry and its Autonomous Bodies. The policy, launched in December 2025, aims to provide structured opportunities for young professionals, researchers, and students in areas like sports administration, science, and governance. Details regarding features, objectives, eligible areas, partners, internship opportunities, monitoring, certification and transition mechanisms are available in the public domain on the website of the Ministry.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Policy Overview:**
* A Comprehensive Internship Policy has been launched by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
* The Policy is designed for this Ministry and its Autonomous Bodies.
* The policy provides structured opportunities for young professionals, researchers, and students.
* It allows exposure in sports administration, management, science and governance.
* **Internship Details:**
* Eligible internship areas include sports science, anti-doping, event management and athlete support services.
* Information on the Policy's features, objectives, institutional partners, internship opportunities, monitoring mechanisms, certification processes and transitions to formal roles is available on the Ministry's website.
* **Policy Objectives:**
* The policy is to provide opportunities for eligible youth to understand and experience the sports ecosystem.
* The long-term goal is to improve employability and professionalism in the sports sector.
**Impact Analysis**
**Youth Professionals, Researchers, and Students**
* *Impact:* They are provided with structured opportunities to gain practical exposure in sports-related fields, including administration, management, science, and governance.
* *Action Required:* Visit the Ministry's website for details on eligible internship areas, institutional partners, the number of internship opportunities, and application procedures.
**Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and its Autonomous Bodies**
* *Impact:* Receives support from young professionals, researchers, and students.
* *Action Required:* Ensure comprehensive policy information is publicly available and accessible on the Ministry's website.
**Sports Sector**
* *Impact:* Benefits from enhanced employability and professionalism, as skilled youth are introduced to the sports ecosystem.
* *Action Required:* No direct action specified.
Key Entities Referenced
Comprehensive Internship Policy for Promotion of Sports Ecosystem: A policy by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to provide internship opportunities in the sports sector.
Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports: The ministry responsible for launching and implementing the Comprehensive Internship Policy for Promotion of Sports Ecosystem.
Odisha: State where tribal and remote areas, including Nabarangpur, are specifically mentioned in relation to internship opportunities and evaluation parameters.
Karnataka: State specifically mentioned with regards to employability and sports professionalisation in reference to the internship policy.
Government of India
Ministry Of Youth Affairs & Sports
Department of Sports
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 448
TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.02.2026
Comprehensive Internship Policy for Promotion of Sports Ecosystem
448. SHRI P P CHAUDHARY:
SHRI P C MOHAN:
SHRI BALABHADRA MAJHI:
DR. MANNA LAL RAWAT:
SHRI VISHWESHWAR HEGDE KAGERI:
SHRI PRAVEEN PATEL:
SMT. SHOBHANABEN MAHENDRASINH BARAIYA:
SHRI VIJAY BAGHEL:
SHRI DAMODAR AGRAWAL:
Will the Minister of YOUTH AFFAIRS AND SPORTS be pleased to state:
(a) the details of key features and objectives of the Comprehensive
Internship Policy for the Sports Ecosystem launched in December,
2025 across the country especially Bengaluru in Karnataka and tribal
and remote areas of Odisha including Nabarangpur;
(b) the details of eligible internship areas such as sports science,
anti-doping, event management and athlete support services and the
institutional partners involved and the number of internship
opportunities provided to tribal youth from Odisha and the said
constituency;
(c) the mechanisms put in place for monitoring, certification and
transition into formal roles for interns completing the programme;
and
(d) whether the Government proposes to develop outcome metrics to
assess the long-term impact of the internship policy on employability
and sports professionalisation in Karnataka along with separate
evaluation parameters for tribal and remote areas of Odisha,
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including the said places?
ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF YOUTH AFFAIRS & SPORTS
[DR. MANSUKH MANDAVIYA]
(a) to (c) The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has launched a
Comprehensive Internship Policy for this Ministry and its Autonomous
Bodies to provide structured opportunities for young professionals,
researchers and students to gain practical exposure in sports
administration, management, science and governance. The details of
the Policy, including its salient features and objectives, the eligible
areas for internship such as sports science, anti-doping, event
management and athlete support services, the institutional partners
associated with the programme, the number of internship
opportunities available, as well as the mechanisms established for
monitoring, certification and facilitating the transition of interns into
formal roles upon successful completion of the programme, are
available in the public domain on the website of this Ministry.
(d). No sir. However, the policy objective is to provide the opportunity
for the eligible youth to understand and experience the sports
ecosystem with a long term view to improve the employability and
professionalism in the sports sector.
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