Chandigarh, Jan. 16 -- A division bench of the Punjab and Haryana high court has stayed its single bench order on 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 after an appeal by the UT 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 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 Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) that rejected UT's proposal to regularise their services. In its appeal, the UT argued that the SSA was a centrally sponsored project and its posts were never merged with regular UT teacher cadre. In the absence of any policy decision or sanctioned posts, the petitioners could not claim a legal right to regularisation. As per counsel Himanshu Malik, the division bench observed that the matter required further consideration and issued a notice of motion. The court directed that the matter be listed for final hearing on March 25 and ordered that the effect and operation of the judgment passed by the single judge shall remain stayed till the next date of hearing....