Chandigarh, Oct. 25 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) has stayed communication from the Mohali district administration asking private schools, even unaided ones, to deploy teachers for Census duty.

The order from the bench of justice Kuldeep Tiwari came on a plea from Mohali private unaided schools association alleging that authorities are compelling the teaching and non-teaching staff of private unaided, self-financed educational institutions to participate in Census-2027, Phase-2, as enumerators, supervisors and other census functionaries.

The association had challenged the October 6 communication from Census officer-cum-executive officer, municipal council, Kharar, and Census officer-cum-executive officer, municipal council, ...