The Municipal Corporation of Delhi-MCD
has issued an eviction notice to the residents of Signature View Apartment in
northwest Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar, asking them to vacate the society declaring
it “unfit for human habitation”.
Built in 2007-09 with 336 with
Middle-Income Group (MIG) and High-Income Group (HIG) flats, the apartment
complex has some construction issues and the Delhi Development Authority has
decided to demolish it.
The notice, dated December 18, says the
society is dangerous and uninhabitable and the residents should vacate it in
seven days.
The Residents’ Welfare Association (RWA)
said they are ready to vacate provided they are paid rent by the authority till
the time new flats are reconstructed.
The decision to dismantle the towers was
taken on the advise of a structural consultant engaged by the DDA after the
residents’ complaints of poor quality construction.
The DDA roped in the National Council of
Cement and Building Material (NCCBM) to suggest remedial measures and on its
recommendations, structural consultant of IIT-Delhi was engaged. Building
material samples were tested at the Shri Ram Institute of Industrial Research
(SLR), Delhi.
“The structural consultant suggested
that distress in the structure (of the building) appears to be due to chloride
in the structure (higher then permissible) which is cause of deterioration of
concrete and corrosion of reinforcement and towers be vacated and dismantled as
soon as possible.
“As per communication received from DDA
and structural audit report, the towers of Signature View Apartment are
dangerous and unfit for human habitation,” it said.
It has been reported that houses/flats
in the towers A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L are in dangerous condition and
in any way dangerous to any person occupying, passing by and also in the
neighborhood, the notice said.
RWA president Amrendra Kumar Rakesh said
that they want rent to be released by the DDA on eviction. “The structure is
dangerous and we also want it to be demolished as soon as possible. We want to
leave it, but also need rent on eviction,” he said.
The DDA had earlier offered to pay the
residents rent only if all 336 flats are vacated. The RWA cited inability to
get all the flat-owners to handover their keys at once, and requested the
authority to bring down the 100 per cent vacation clause to 75 per cent.
PTI
