{"id":1035447,"date":"2026-09-15T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035447"},"modified":"2026-09-15T09:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:40:23","slug":"centre-orders-upi-transactions-up-to-rs-2000-be-kept-free-of-charge-mum-on-bigger-amounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/15\/centre-orders-upi-transactions-up-to-rs-2000-be-kept-free-of-charge-mum-on-bigger-amounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre orders UPI transactions up to Rs 2,000 be kept free of charge, mum on bigger amounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small UPI payments are set to stay fee-free, with the Centre formally barring banks and payment system providers from imposing charges on transactions of up to Rs 2,000. <\/p>\n<p>In a notification issued Monday under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, the finance ministry designated UPI transactions up to Rs 2,000 and RuPay-powered debit cards as electronic payment modes covered by the charge prohibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small UPI payments are set to stay fee-free, with the Centre formally barring banks and payment system providers from imposing charges on transactions of up to Rs 2,000. In a notification issued Monday under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, the finance ministry designated UPI transactions up to Rs 2,000 and RuPay-powered debit cards as electronic payment modes covered by the charge prohibition.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035447","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=1035447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035460,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035447\/revisions\/1035460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}