"The vice-chancellor said he would make sure that this provision is taken off the prospectus next year on the pretext that students from open school were not academically sound," Chaudhary said.

According to university regulations, "A student who secures less than 40 per cent marks class XII and joins School of Open Learning and secures over 40 per cent in BA/B.Com-I/II examination of the university and is eligible for promotion to the next higher class may be allowed to migrate to a Regular College/Non-collegiate Women's education board."

Generally, students have to get the permission of the department they want to migrate to before applying for migration with the administration.

Rahul (name changed), a B.Com-I student at the open school wanted to migrate to the same course in Dayal Singh College.

"I spoke to the department's head at Dayal Singh and he signed a no-objection application. But, the administration had closed the migration even before my result came out," he said.

Another student wanted to migrate into a regular college in third year B.Com, but could get a go-ahead from the DU administration.

"The university is deliberately not extending the date because the vice-chancellor does not want the open school students to migrate into regular colleges," he said.