India, Jan. 23 -- Once again, this is not an easy question to answer. India has not published official poverty data since 2011-12. Moreover, for a city like Delhi, poverty is anyway a relative rather than an absolute concept. The best proxy for economically vulnerable population, HT could come up with, was the number of ration card beneficiaries as a proportion of registered electors. The number of ration card holders in Delhi is available for Delhi at the AC-level, which can help in checking which ACs have a higher proportion of poor.
"The eligibility for priority ration cards under National Food Security Act (NFSA) is on the basis of geographic (residential), occupational and social deprivation with further exclusions based on income and...