Twenty-one-year-old Nitin Rathore from Kota is the kind of student the government had in mind when it envisioned the Prime Minister’s Internship Scheme (PMIS). A business administration graduate from Career Point University and the first in his business-owning family to seek a job, he has been working in the HR department of an Indian multinational for the past few months. Treating the one-year internship as a stepping stone to a secure career, he says, “I am giving this my 100 per cent so that they give me a pre-placement offer.”