ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Youth Affairs is all set to induct 30,000 postgraduates in the third phase of the National Internship Programme (NIP) aimed at providing financial relief to more and more educated youngsters and keeping them engaged in skill-based activities. According to an official within the Ministry of Youth Affairs, presently they are planning to offer internship to 30,000 educated youngsters under the NIP project, and in this regard applications of unemployed postgraduates would be invited within two weeks. Process of selection would be transparent and only eligible candidates would be awarded internship letters, said an official. In third batch of NIP, he continued that around 30,000 youngsters would be inducted after complete verification of degrees by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and CNIC by the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA). He opined that it is very essential to involve young people in practical and creative activities for acknowledging their talent and building their confidence level, youth has the potential. It is our responsibility to provide them opportunities and utilise their potential for development sector, he added. It is to be mentioned here that for NIP project Rs 3.6 billion have been allocated in the federal budget. Despite having tremendous potential as drivers of social change, youth have always been caught in a multitude of problems like unemployment, poverty, social taboos and politics. Since the creation of Pakistan the youth was left alone in isolation at the mercy of circumstances. The primarily frustrated due to career and academic issues, identity crises, family dynamics and low self esteem and lack of self-confidence that always waste their talent. In order to better equip graduates of the country for their future career in February 2007, the government had approved a revolutionary National Internship Programme where fresh unemployed graduated from all over the country could get one year hands- on experience with government organisations. However, the quarters concerned hardly managed to run it for more than year due to financial crises. As the NIP shifted from the Establishment Division to the Ministry of Youth Affairs, the ministrys officials had made a request to the prime minister for getting more funds for proper implementation of the project. Under the umbrella of Ministry of Youth Affairs the much-awaited project of NIP was formally re-launched in Larkana at the mausoleum of Benazir Bhutto Shaheed where the placement orders were given to around 500 selected candidates. In recent past placement orders had also been distributed among 2,300 candidates in a ceremony being held in the federal capital.