Signature View residents asked to vacate by July 31

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has asked residents of the crumbling Signature View apartments in north Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar to vacate and hand over the houses by July 31, according to a recent Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) issued to homebuyers.

- Snehil Sinha

NEW DELHI:

Like the one issued in March, the fresh SOP issued on May 1 too did not specify when the agency will provide rent to all residents—a lingering issue that has drawn out the vacation process for long now.

The apartments are supposed to undergo demolition and subsequent reconstruction, as per orders issued by lieutenant governor (LG) VK Saxena to DDA in January 2023. The order was given after all the 12 towers in Signature View were declared unfit for habitation in an IIT-Delhi report in November 2022.

Since then, some residents have moved out, while some have stayed back.

DDA has now asked the residents of already vacated flats to complete all handover formalities by May 30.