Chandigarh, Jan. 16 -- A division bench of the Punjab and Haryana high court has stayed its single bench order regarding the regularisation of 700 teachers working in Chandigarh schools under the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) since 2005.

The bench, comprising justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and justice Rohit Kapoor passed the order following an appeal by the Chandigarh administration challenging a November 14 order of a single judge bench, which held that because the teachers were selected against specific posts and had served since 2005, they could not be denied regularisation based on a lack of posts or regularisation policy.

The single judge order had come on a plea from Arvind Rana and others, who challenged a 2021 decision by the Ministr...