{"id":1021829,"date":"2026-07-17T10:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021829"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:40:10","slug":"government-may-bring-back-upi-mdr-for-large-merchants-who-could-be-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/17\/government-may-bring-back-upi-mdr-for-large-merchants-who-could-be-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Government may bring back UPI MDR for large merchants: Who could be affected?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre is considering bringing back the merchant discount rate (MDR) on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions for large merchants, according to an Economic Times report citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>As per the report, the proposal under discussion is to levy MDR on merchants with an annual turnover of around \u20b91 crore to \u20b91.5 crore, and only for UPI transactions exceeding \u20b92,000. The final decision is yet to be taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre is considering bringing back the merchant discount rate (MDR) on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions for large merchants, according to an Economic Times report citing people familiar with the matter. As per the report, the proposal under discussion is to levy MDR on merchants with an annual turnover of around \u20b91 crore to \u20b91.5 crore, and only for UPI transactions exceeding \u20b92,000. The final decision is yet to be taken.<\/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-1021829","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\/1021829","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=1021829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021831,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021829\/revisions\/1021831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}