{"id":1035092,"date":"2026-09-14T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035092"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:44:49","slug":"unified-payment-not-brics-currency-on-the-table-mea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/14\/unified-payment-not-brics-currency-on-the-table-mea\/","title":{"rendered":"Unified payment, not BRICS currency, on the table: MEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: There is no proposal to create a BRICS currency, India said on Saturday after the conclusion of the BRICS Leaders\u2019 Summit, while stressing that the grouping is instead exploring greater use of local currencies for trade and payments. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no proposal for a BRICS currency as of now,\u201d MEA Secretary Sudhakar Dalela said, clarifying India\u2019s position amid growing global debate over de-dollarisation and efforts to reduce dependence on the US dollar in cross-border trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: There is no proposal to create a BRICS currency, India said on Saturday after the conclusion of the BRICS Leaders\u2019 Summit, while stressing that the grouping is instead exploring greater use of local currencies for trade and payments. \u201cThere is no proposal for a BRICS currency as of now,\u201d MEA Secretary Sudhakar Dalela said, clarifying India\u2019s position amid growing global debate over de-dollarisation and efforts to reduce dependence on the US dollar in cross-border trade.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035092","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=1035092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035121,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035092\/revisions\/1035121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}