{"id":1000044,"date":"2026-03-30T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000044"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:04:09","slug":"calls-for-tiered-charges-on-upi-reach-parliament-as-govt-incentives-seem-insufficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/30\/calls-for-tiered-charges-on-upi-reach-parliament-as-govt-incentives-seem-insufficient\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for tiered charges on UPI reach Parliament as govt incentives seem insufficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Parliamentarians are recommending charging of fees for transactions on India\u2019s real-time payments network, a move that could change the government\u2019s \u2018free-for-all\u2019 policy. A new committee report suggests a tiered revenue model is necessary to sustain the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), as budgetary sops fail to cover rising maintenance costs.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal marks a significant moment for a system that processed about \u20b9300 trillion in 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Parliamentarians are recommending charging of fees for transactions on India\u2019s real-time payments network, a move that could change the government\u2019s \u2018free-for-all\u2019 policy. A new committee report suggests a tiered revenue model is necessary to sustain the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), as budgetary sops fail to cover rising maintenance costs. The proposal marks a significant moment for a system that processed about \u20b9300 trillion in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}