As per case facts, petitioners, teachers appointed under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) program by U.T. Chandigarh, have served for nearly two decades on a contract basis after a proper ... selection process. They perform duties identical to regular teachers. Despite the U.T. Administration's repeated requests and sanctioned posts, the Central Government rejected their regularization, citing the Uma Devi judgment. The petitioners appealed to the High Court seeking regularization of their services. The question arose whether these long-serving teachers, appointed through due procedure, could be denied regularization based on the Uma Devi judgment or the absence of a regularization policy. Finally, the High Court ruled that the petitioners were not backdoor entrants and that Uma Devi should not be misinterpreted to deny regularization to long-serving, properly appointed employees. It directed the regularization of all SSA teachers with over a decade of service, with a deemed regularization clause if the order is not complied with within six weeks, and ordered the judgment's application to all similarly situated teachers.