Once worth $35 billion, Kushal Pal Singh's net worth dropped by more than $2 billion in the past year due to sluggish property market and declining profits. His DLF has been selling assets to prune its $3.3 billion debt. In January it sold its wind energy business; in July it unloaded stake in an insurance joint venture with Prudential. Deal to sell luxury resort chain Aman Resorts to its founder, Adrian Zecha, unraveled when Zecha failed to arrange funds. Its 1.9-million-squarefoot Mall of India is due to open in 2014 in Delhi.