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States
Pigmy collection is regulated state by state. What applies where, and which institutions operate in each.
- States
Telangana
Telangana shows daily-deposit collection running outside the Karnataka and Maharashtra belt, at a Hyderabad urban co-operative bank that publishes its rates in full.
Updated 11 Sep 2026Read - States
Assam
A Guwahati co-operative bank runs doorstep pigmy collection under that exact name, which places the practice far from the two states it is usually associated with.
Updated 11 Sep 2026Read - States
Karnataka
Karnataka is where pigmy collection began, in Udupi in 1928, and where a High Court ruling has unsettled the legal status of collection agents.
Updated 10 Sep 2026Read - States
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is the only state with a reported count of pigmy agents that we have found, and the only one we found that caps agent commission by government order.
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