{"id":1031242,"date":"2026-08-26T09:44:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031242"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:29:16","slug":"upi-marks-10-years-with-13000-fold-transaction-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/26\/upi-marks-10-years-with-13000-fold-transaction-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI marks 10 years with 13,000-fold transaction surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Unified Payments Interface (UPI), which was launched on August 25, 2016, has completed a decade of transforming India\u2019s digital payments landscape, emerging as the backbone of the country\u2019s digital payments ecosystem and a global benchmark for real-time payments. <\/p>\n<p>Annual UPI transaction volume rose from 1.78 crore in 2016-17 to more than 24,162 crore in 2025-26, an almost 13,000-fold increase, the finance ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unified Payments Interface (UPI), which was launched on August 25, 2016, has completed a decade of transforming India\u2019s digital payments landscape, emerging as the backbone of the country\u2019s digital payments ecosystem and a global benchmark for real-time payments. Annual UPI transaction volume rose from 1.78 crore in 2016-17 to more than 24,162 crore in 2025-26, an almost 13,000-fold increase, the finance ministry said in a statement.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031242","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=1031242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031250,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031242\/revisions\/1031250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}