Plan panel recruits interns from IIMs

New Delhi: IIM students are now keen to play a major role in policy making; and what better place to start from than India's Planning Commssion.

One would have normally expected Shaki, a second year MBA student from IIM Lucknow to be interning with an investment bank or some other financial institution.

But instead of climbing the corporate ladder, he is racking his brains with the government officials at the Planning Commission shaping the country's policies.

He is one of the two IIM students who have been recruited as summer interns by the Planning Commission for the first time this year.

The commission intends to take 15 students for this program this year. And it's not only the students from the Indian schools who are joining but the Nehruvian commission also has students from top schools like Harvard and Wharton who are expected to do their summers here and get a taste of the Indian bureaucracy.

"It is an opportunity for the students to come and be a part of that part of government which looks at policies critically," said Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission.

Today's youth is tomorrow's future and the Planning Commission of India is making sure that the Indian youth have a greater role in shaping the country's future.