Sponsorship for Employment (Ex-Servicemen Employment Registration), Uttarakhand

What is Sponsorship for Employment in Uttarakhand?

Sponsorship for Employment is a placement-assistance service run by the Directorate of Soldier Welfare and Rehabilitation, Government of Uttarakhand; known locally as the Sainik Kalyan Evam Punarvas Nideshalaya. The Directorate maintains a live register of ex-servicemen and their legal dependents who are looking for work after discharge, and sponsors names from that register to employers who write in asking for candidates against ex-servicemen and dependent vacancies.

Uttarakhand is one of the most heavily military-recruited states in India. A very large share of households in Pauri, Tehri, Almora, Pithoragarh, Chamoli and Rudraprayag have at least one serving or retired soldier, and most soldiers retire in their late thirties or forties with a long working life still ahead. The Directorate exists to bridge that second-career gap, and Sponsorship for Employment is the specific service that connects a discharged soldier to a vacancy.

According to the Directorate's services page on sainikkalyan.uk.gov.in, the Directorate offers four citizen services, Ex-Servicemen Employment Registration, Ex-Servicemen Qualification Upgradation Registration, Ex-Servicemen Identity Card, and House Tax Exemption. Sponsorship for Employment is delivered through the first of these: you register once, and the District Soldier Welfare Office draws on that register whenever a requisition arrives.

What sponsorship means in practice

• Your name, rank, trade, education and district go onto the roster held by the District Soldier Welfare Office (Zila Sainik Kalyan Karyalaya).
• When a government department, public sector undertaking, bank, security agency or private employer notifies a vacancy reserved for or open to ex-servicemen, the office shortlists matching names from the roster.
• The office forwards, sponsors. Those names to the employer with a covering letter certifying ex-servicemen or dependent status.
• The employer conducts its own interview, test or physical standard check and makes the appointment.

Sponsorship is therefore an official introduction backed by verified service records. It is not a cash benefit, and it is not an appointment order.

Who is eligible for ex-servicemen employment sponsorship?

You can register if:

• You are an ex-serviceman of the Indian Army, Navy or Air Force who has been released or discharged with a discharge book or discharge certificate.
• You are domiciled in Uttarakhand, or you have settled in Uttarakhand after discharge and hold a permanent residence certificate of the state.
• You hold, or have applied for, the Ex-Servicemen Identity Card issued by the Directorate of Soldier Welfare and Rehabilitation, Uttarakhand.
• You are a legal dependent of an ex-serviceman. A widow, a widow of a soldier who died in service, a dependent son or a dependent daughter, and can produce a dependency or relationship certificate.
• You meet the minimum educational qualification for the category of post you want to be sponsored for.

You cannot apply if:

• You are still serving and have not yet been released; sponsorship starts only after discharge, though pre-release counselling is available separately.
• You were dismissed from service, as a dismissal does not confer ex-servicemen status and the discharge book will not support the claim.
• You are not domiciled in Uttarakhand and are not enrolled with any district office of the state — apply instead to the Zila Sainik Board of the state where you are registered.
• You are a relative of an ex-serviceman but not a legal dependent, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces and married daughters supported by another household are not eligible under the dependent category.
• You cannot produce the discharge book or an equivalent record-office document, because status cannot be verified without it.

No income ceiling and no upper age bar are published for placement on the roster itself. Age limits apply to individual vacancies and are fixed by the employer, not by the Directorate, with the usual relaxation for ex-servicemen applied to posts under the Government of Uttarakhand.

How to apply for Sponsorship for Employment

The Directorate's own service page states that ex-servicemen should use the state e-services portal for employment registration. Follow these steps.

1. Get your Ex-Servicemen Identity Card first. If you do not already hold the state ex-servicemen identity card, apply for it at your District Soldier Welfare Office with the discharge book, Aadhaar, photographs and permanent residence certificate. The identity card is the reference point for every other service.
2. Create an account on eservices.uk.gov.in. Open the Apuni Sarkar portal, register with your mobile number and Aadhaar, and verify the OTP. Use a mobile number you will keep, because sponsorship intimations are sent to it.
3. Select the Soldier Welfare Department service. From the department list on the portal choose the Directorate of Soldier Welfare and Rehabilitation, then select Ex-Servicemen Employment Registration.
4. Fill the registration form. Enter your service number, rank, trade or branch, date of enrolment, date of discharge, district, present address, educational qualifications and any technical or trade certificates. Enter dependent details if the registration is for a widow, son or daughter.
5. Upload the documents. Attach the discharge book, ex-servicemen identity card, Aadhaar, permanent residence certificate, all education certificates, the dependency certificate where relevant, and a passport photograph. Keep each scan under the size limit shown on the portal.
6. Submit and note the application number. The portal issues an acknowledgement number. Save it. It is the only reference for tracking.
7. Complete verification at the district office. The District Soldier Welfare Officer verifies the service record against the original discharge book. Carry the originals when called.

Offline route. Ex-servicemen who prefer to register in person may go directly to the District Soldier Welfare Office of their district with the same set of originals and photocopies. Staff there complete the roster entry and hand over a receipt. For applicants in remote hill blocks with poor connectivity this is often the faster route, and the Directorate accepts it.

How do I check my registration and sponsorship status?

Track the application on eservices.uk.gov.in using the acknowledgement number issued at submission; the portal shows whether the application is pending with the district office, verified, or returned for correction. Once the roster entry is live, status of actual sponsorship is held by the District Soldier Welfare Office rather than the portal, because sponsorship happens against a specific requisition. Telephone or visit the district office to ask whether your name has been forwarded for any recent vacancy.

Keep a copy of every sponsorship letter you receive. If an employer rejects you, the district office needs to know so that your name is returned to the active pool rather than left marked as placed.

Why do registrations get rejected, and how do I fix it?

• Discharge book not legible or not attached. Re-upload a clean scan of every page that carries the service number, trade and date of discharge.
• Name mismatch between the discharge book, Aadhaar and education certificates. Get the spelling corrected on the civil documents before registering, or file an affidavit of one-and-the-same-person.
• No Uttarakhand permanent residence certificate. Obtain it from the tehsil through the Apuni Sarkar portal, then attach it.
• Dependency not proved. A widow needs the death certificate and the ex-serviceman's discharge book; a son or daughter needs a dependency certificate naming them.
• Qualification not recorded. A degree or diploma earned after discharge must be added through Ex-Servicemen Qualification Upgradation Registration, otherwise the roster will keep sponsoring you only at the old qualification level.
• Unreachable mobile number. The single most common practical failure is a correct roster entry with a phone that no longer works.

What are the key dates and how long does it take?

Sponsorship for Employment has no application season and no last date; registration is open all year, and the roster is a rolling one. District offices typically complete verification within a few weeks of receiving the originals, but sponsorship itself depends entirely on when an employer notifies a vacancy, so there is no fixed timeline for a placement.

Ex-servicemen who are about to retire should register as soon as the discharge book is in hand rather than waiting, because the roster is generally worked through in the order of registration and qualification match.

Where do I go with a complaint?

Take an unresolved problem to the District Soldier Welfare Officer of your district first. The Directorate publishes district office contacts in the directory section of sainikkalyan.uk.gov.in. If the district office cannot resolve it, write to the Directorate of Soldier Welfare and Rehabilitation, 15C, Kalidas Marg, Hathibarkala, Dehradun 248001. The Directorate also runs a grievance redressal page on its website, and complaints about the online form itself can be raised through the grievance link on eservices.uk.gov.in.

Uttarakhand additionally runs a citizen call centre on 155300 for e-district and Apuni Sarkar service problems, which is the right number to use when the portal itself, rather than the sponsorship decision, is the problem.

Related services from the same Directorate

The Directorate of Soldier Welfare and Rehabilitation lists ten welfare grants on its schemes page alongside the four citizen services; Penury Grant, Education Grant, Marriage Grant, Medical Treatment Grant, Serious Diseases Grant, Orphan Grant, Disabled Child Grant, Vocational Training Grant, Gallantry Award Grant and Non-Gallantry Award Grant. An ex-serviceman waiting for a sponsorship result should check these separately, particularly the Vocational Training Grant, which supports the retraining that often makes the difference to whether a sponsored name is selected.