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just do a simple calculation - if you add up all the placement stats and add 20% to it, the figure will not be more than 1-1.5k, that is the total intake capacity in Indian formal legal market with half decent retainer
nlus + top 5 pvt law colleges spit out over 4k graduates pa, apart from then on avg there are 50k fresh law graduates passing aibe from other colleges, taking 5% of that figure it gives us around 6.5k semi decent lawyers who may vie for that 1k law firm jobs.
its simple, we need to have a) reduce number of law college, b) provide stipend for first 2 years for young law gradutes who want to do independent practice insititutionalise nalsa, c) open up the legal market, d) encourage formation of legal partnerships and less independent practice, this will lead to concentratio of resoruces which can then be used to transfer the burden of stipend to them, e) allow lawyers to take a cut of the compensation in lieu of fees
Research papers/moots are generally not of that much significance to internship selection unless you are thinking of interning with a T1 firm in your 3rd/4th/5th years or working with certain very selective NGOs (Project 39A, Vidhi, etc). In the case of T1 firms moots and research papers are both very important whereas for top NGOs moots are somewhat less important but you need to have done excellent research work.