How does a CS / IT student land their first internship in Nepal?

Short answer: Build one project that solves a small real problem, put the link on your CV, and apply via direct email — not via job-board forms.

The four-step path.

1. Ship one project. A booking page for your cousin’s salon. A NEPSE scraper. A Khalti payment demo. Public repo, public URL, one paragraph on what you built and why.
2. Apply by email to three engineering managers a week. Subject line names the project. Body is three short paragraphs.
3. Show up to local meetups — Kathmandu JS, Pythonistas Nepal, Devs Nepal. Internships are still mostly handed out by word of mouth.
4. Negotiate the stipend later. Most Nepali interns start at NPR 10,000 to 25,000. After three months of visible output, ask for the bump.

What hurts most beginners. Sending the same CV to fifty companies via a portal. The internships are not on the portal — the open ones are.

Where did your first internship come from? Tell the next student.