{"id":1035756,"date":"2026-09-16T08:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035756"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:38:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:08:54","slug":"upi-transactions-above-rs-2000-to-attract-0-4-mdr-check-key-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/upi-transactions-above-rs-2000-to-attract-0-4-mdr-check-key-details\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI transactions above Rs 2,000 to attract 0.4% MDR; check key details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government will introduce a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on select Person-to-Merchant (P2M) UPI transactions from October 15, with merchants paying 0.4% on transactions above Rs 2,000 and a maximum fee of Rs 300 for payments of Rs 75,000 or more, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The new framework is aimed at creating a more sustainable commercial model for the UPI ecosystem, with the proceeds to be used for investments in payment infrastructure, cybersecurity, innovation and customer service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government will introduce a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on select Person-to-Merchant (P2M) UPI transactions from October 15, with merchants paying 0.4% on transactions above Rs 2,000 and a maximum fee of Rs 300 for payments of Rs 75,000 or more, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) announced on Tuesday. The new framework is aimed at creating a more sustainable commercial model for the UPI ecosystem, with the proceeds to be used for investments in payment infrastructure, cybersecurity, innovation and customer service.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035756","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=1035756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035757,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035756\/revisions\/1035757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}