{"id":1014097,"date":"2026-06-12T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014097"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:51:04","slug":"upi-meets-npi-how-the-new-india-nepal-remittance-facility-benefits-travellers-migrant-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/12\/upi-meets-npi-how-the-new-india-nepal-remittance-facility-benefits-travellers-migrant-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI meets NPI: How the new India-Nepal remittance facility benefits travellers, migrant workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India and Nepal have rolled out a peer-to-peer (P2P) cross-border remittance facility, marking a major step towards strengthening digital financial connectivity between the two neighbouring countries. The service became operational on 6 June and is aimed at making money transfers easier for travellers, families and businesses, the finance ministry said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative links India&#8217;s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) with Nepal&#8217;s National Payments Interface (NPI), allowing users in both countries to transfer funds instantly through mobile banking apps and digital wallets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and Nepal have rolled out a peer-to-peer (P2P) cross-border remittance facility, marking a major step towards strengthening digital financial connectivity between the two neighbouring countries. The service became operational on 6 June and is aimed at making money transfers easier for travellers, families and businesses, the finance ministry said on Thursday. The initiative links India&#8217;s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) with Nepal&#8217;s National Payments Interface (NPI), allowing users in both countries to transfer funds instantly through mobile banking apps and digital wallets.<\/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-1014097","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\/1014097","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=1014097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014098,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014097\/revisions\/1014098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}