{"id":1026638,"date":"2026-08-06T08:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026638"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:53:05","slug":"fee-on-upi-transactions-above-rs-3000-could-drive-users-away-only-12-willing-to-pay-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/fee-on-upi-transactions-above-rs-3000-could-drive-users-away-only-12-willing-to-pay-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Fee on UPI transactions above Rs 3,000 could drive users away, only 12% willing to pay: Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only 12 per cent of Indian users say they\u2019d keep using Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and pay a transaction fee if the government brings back Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on payments above Rs 3000, a new survey by LocalCircles has found. <\/p>\n<p>This could be a shift only if Parliament passes the proposed amendment to Section 10 (A) of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 12 per cent of Indian users say they\u2019d keep using Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and pay a transaction fee if the government brings back Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on payments above Rs 3000, a new survey by LocalCircles has found. This could be a shift only if Parliament passes the proposed amendment to Section 10 (A) of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026638","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026639,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026638\/revisions\/1026639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}