{"id":1035780,"date":"2026-09-16T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035780"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:32:04","slug":"mdr-on-upi-payments-above-rs-2000-likely-in-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/mdr-on-upi-payments-above-rs-2000-likely-in-days\/","title":{"rendered":"MDR on UPI payments above Rs 2,000 likely in days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)-led committee will likely decide on the fee for UPI payments above Rs 2,000 in a couple of days, even as RuPay debit card transactions will remain free regardless of the transaction value. <\/p>\n<p>Sources indicated that the merchant discount rate (MDR) could be around 0.3%. The rate is likely to be announced this week or in a couple of days, they said. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday night, the Department of Financial Services issued a gazette notification specifying the electronic payment modes that would continue to receive statutory protection from charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)-led committee will likely decide on the fee for UPI payments above Rs 2,000 in a couple of days, even as RuPay debit card transactions will remain free regardless of the transaction value. Sources indicated that the merchant discount rate (MDR) could be around 0.3%. The rate is likely to be announced this week or in a couple of days, they said. On Monday night, the Department of Financial Services issued a gazette notification specifying the electronic payment modes that would continue to receive statutory protection from charges.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035780","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=1035780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035803,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035780\/revisions\/1035803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}