Hyderabad: The Telangana government has started applying Mulki Rules to filter out Seemandhra people residing in Hyderabad and Telangana. For fee reimbursement and Aarogyasri, the cut-off year of 1956 is being considered, when the Hyderabad state was merged to form AP.
If this comes into force, only children of residents of Hyderabad state prior to 1956 will be eligible for the schemes. In Urdu, “Mulk” means nation and the residents are called “Mulkis”. A person shall be called a Mulki if a) by birth he is a subject of the Hyderabad state; b) by residence in the Hyderabad state, he is entitled to be a Mulki; c) his father having completed 15 years of service in the government at the time of his birth; d) she is a wife of a person who is a Mulki.
A person shall also be called a Mulki if he or she has been a permanent resident of the Hyderabad state for at least 15 years and has abandoned the idea of returning to the place of his residence and has obtained an affidavit to that effect on a prescribed form attested by a magistrate.
