{"id":1026730,"date":"2026-08-06T10:06:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026730"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:27:29","slug":"rbi-governor-calls-upi-merchant-charges-proposal-very-premature-says-someone-has-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/rbi-governor-calls-upi-merchant-charges-proposal-very-premature-says-someone-has-to-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"RBI Governor calls UPI merchant charges proposal \u2018very premature\u2019, says \u2018someone has to pay\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra said on Wednesday that it was &#8216;very premature&#8217; to make remark on the government&#8217;s proposed changes with regard to merchant charges on digital payments, while emphasizing that maintaining and growing India&#8217;s digital payments framework comes at a price that &#8216;someone has to pay.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Malhotra responded to a question about reports that the government might permit Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specific UPI transactions, such as those involving large retailers or those exceeding a specific value, by stating that the centre was presently working on the proposed amendment and refused to comment on its potential details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra said on Wednesday that it was &#8216;very premature&#8217; to make remark on the government&#8217;s proposed changes with regard to merchant charges on digital payments, while emphasizing that maintaining and growing India&#8217;s digital payments framework comes at a price that &#8216;someone has to pay.&#8217; Malhotra responded to a question about reports that the government might permit Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specific UPI transactions, such as those involving large retailers or those exceeding a specific value, by stating that the centre was presently working on the proposed amendment and refused to comment on [&hellip;]<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026730","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=1026730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026788,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026730\/revisions\/1026788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}