Viksit Delhi CM Internship Programme

What is the Viksit Delhi CM Internship Programme?

Viksit Delhi CM Internship Programme is a short government internship launched by Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on 30 June 2025. It places selected students inside the Delhi government for three months so they see how policy is actually made and administered, with the Administrative Reforms Department acting as nodal department.

The programme's stated purpose, in the Chief Minister's words at launch, is to provide real-time experience to young and dynamic students of Delhi and to involve them in policy development. In practice that means an intern works on live government material: briefs, data, departmental processes and schemes, rather than observing from a classroom.

Key parameters

• Duration: 3 months.
• Stipend: Rs 20,000 per month, or Rs 60,000 across the internship.
• Intake: 150 interns.
• Leave: 5 days permitted during the tenure.
• Nodal department: Administrative Reforms Department, GNCTD.

The name carries the "Viksit" framing used across Indian government programmes for development-oriented initiatives, and readers searching for it will also see it written as Viksit Delhi Yuva after the registration site used for the first cycle.

Who is eligible for the Viksit Delhi CM Internship?

Four conditions apply together, and failing any one of them ends the application.

You can be considered if:

• You are 18 to 30 years old.
• You are a permanent resident of Delhi.
• You are an enrolled voter in Delhi. This is checked separately from residence, so a person who lives in Delhi but votes elsewhere does not qualify.
• You are currently enrolled in a graduation or postgraduation course.
• You scored at least 70 percent in Class 12.

You are not eligible if:

• You are under 18 or over 30.
• You live outside the NCT of Delhi. Students from Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Faridabad cannot apply, even if they study at a Delhi university.
• You are not on the Delhi electoral roll.
• You have already completed your studies and are not currently enrolled anywhere.
• Your Class 12 aggregate is below 70 percent. There is no relaxation published for this cut-off.

What documents are required?

How to apply for the Viksit Delhi CM Internship

The 2025 cycle followed this route, and any future cycle is likely to repeat it.

1. Watch for the cycle notification on the Delhi government portal at delhi.gov.in and in Delhi government press releases. The programme runs in announced cycles, not continuously.
2. Register online on the portal named in that notification, entering your personal details, Delhi residence and voter details, course of study and Class 12 percentage.
3. Upload the supporting documents, residence proof, voter ID, Aadhaar, Class 12 marksheet and current student ID.
4. Enter your bank account details, since this is the account into which the Rs 20,000 monthly stipend is later credited.
5. Submit before the closing date and save the acknowledgement. In the 2025 cycle, registration closed on 10 July 2025.
6. Take the screening test, which required answering 4 questions in 300 words. Results of the 2025 screening were declared on 21 July 2025 and shortlisted 300 candidates.
7. Attend the boot camp, held on 10 August 2025 in the first cycle, which included an essay writing examination.
8. Check the final list of 150 selected interns and join on the date given in the offer.

How the selection works

Viksit Delhi CM Internship Programme selects on writing, not on interviews. Both published stages are written: a 300-word screening response set and an essay examination at the boot camp. That is a deliberate signal about the work — government policy work is mostly reading, analysing and writing clearly under a word limit.

The funnel published for the 2025 cycle was a large applicant pool narrowed to 300 screened candidates, and those 300 narrowed to the final 150. A candidate is therefore competing on the quality of two pieces of writing.

How and when is the stipend paid?

The stipend is Rs 20,000 per month for the three months of the internship, credited to the bank account submitted at registration. Interns are entitled to 5 days of leave across the tenure.

The most common practical problem with a stipend of this kind is an account mismatch. The account must be in the intern's own name and active. A joint account in a parent's name, a dormant account or a name that does not match the identity documents will hold the payment up.

Key dates from the 2025 cycle

A caution about the registration website

The registration website used for the 2025 cycle, viksitdelhiyuva.org, no longer resolves to a live Government of NCT of Delhi page and now redirects to a parked domain.

Do not enter your Aadhaar number, voter details, marksheet or bank account details on that domain in its present state. Any future cycle should be confirmed through the Delhi government portal at delhi.gov.in or an official Delhi government press release before you submit anything. A programme that asks for residence proof, voter ID and bank details is exactly the kind that gets imitated by fraudulent sites.

Why applications get rejected

• Residence or voter condition not met. The single most common reason, because many applicants study in Delhi but are registered voters elsewhere.
• Class 12 percentage below 70, with no relaxation available.
• Not currently enrolled in a course at the time of applying.
• Age crossed 30 on the date of application.
• Screening response over the 300-word limit or incomplete, since the screening is a written test with a fixed format.
• Bank account not in the applicant's own name, which does not stop selection but delays the stipend.

Where to get help

• Delhi government portal: delhi.gov.in, which carries departmental contacts and current notifications.
• Administrative Reforms Department, GNCTD, the nodal department for the programme.
• The support email address published in the cycle notification itself; always take it from the live notification rather than from an older listing.

Viksit Delhi CM Internship Programme charges no application fee. No consultant or agent can secure a place in the 150, and any offer to do so for money is a fraud.

How to check your application status

Viksit Delhi CM Internship Programme does not run a year-round applicant dashboard with a login and a status field, because it operates in announced cycles rather than as a continuous scheme. Status is published, not looked up individually, and it moves through three checkpoints.

1. Registration acknowledgement. After you submit the online form, save or screenshot the acknowledgement shown on screen. This is your only proof that you applied, since there is no separate tracking number issued afterward.
2. Screening result. Once the screening window closes, the shortlist of candidates called for the boot camp is declared on the same portal used for registration and repeated in Delhi government press releases. In the 2025 cycle this list of 300 came out on 21 July 2025, eleven days after registration closed. Check your name against that published list rather than waiting for an individual notification, since none is sent.
3. Final selection list. After the boot camp and essay examination, the final list of 150 selected interns is published the same way, through the portal and official announcements. This is the list that determines whether you join.

If you registered but cannot find either list, or the portal used for your cycle is unreachable, do not assume rejection first. Confirm through the Administrative Reforms Department, GNCTD, which is the nodal department for the programme, or through current notices on delhi.gov.in. Because the 2025 cycle's registration site, viksitdelhiyuva.org, no longer functions as a government page, treat any status check that asks you to log in there as unreliable, and rely on delhi.gov.in or an official press release instead.

There is no helpline number published for candidate status queries specifically. Questions about a pending application are best routed through the Administrative Reforms Department or the support email address given in the live cycle notification, not an older listing, since contact details can change between cycles.