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He was later forced to resign from the job.It is to be noted that around 18,000 people are currently employed in various government department on the sponsorship of UPNL, which annually provides employment to approximately 2,000 people. “They all got jobs on compassionate grounds. We scrutinized all employment sponsorships given to non-Army individuals after July 2016,” said Brigadier (retd) PPS Pahwa, managing director of UPNL.According to a senior official, UPNL has intimated the employers of all the candidates about the cancellation of their sponsorships and their service will be terminated.Pahwa further added that all the candidates whose sponsorships were cancelled belonged to non-political backgrounds and were given jobs on compassionate grounds. Dehradun: Days after a controversy erupted over Uttarakhand assembly speaker’s son getting appointed in a government job meant for ex-soldiers and their family members, Uttarakhand Purva Sainik Kalyan Nigam Limited (UPNL) has now cancelled the sponsorship of around 22 more candidates who were found to belong to non-Army backgrounds.The sponsorships were terminated after UPNL scrutinized employment of civilians after a government order on July 5, 2016 which specified that only ex-servicemen and their kin should be employed through UPNL.“We have cancelled the sponsorship of around 22 candidates of non-Army background who were appointed in government departments through our agency. However, we took action as they were neither ex-servicemen nor their kin,” said PPS Pahwa.Incidentally, the controversy erupted following a dispute over Piyush Aggarwal, son of assembly speaker Premchand Agarwal, getting the job of an assistant engineer in jal sansthan through UPNL, which administers the welfare of former soldiers and their kin and arranges for their re-employment in state government institutions..