India, May 4 -- The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has asked residents of the crumbling Signature View apartments in north Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar to vacate and handover the houses by July 31, according to a recent Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) issued to homeowners.

Like the one issued in March, the fresh set of SOP issued on May 1 too did not specify when the agency will offer rent to all the 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 in January 2023 to DDA. All the 12 towers in Signature View were declared unfit for habitation in an IIT-Delhi repor...