{"id":1035839,"date":"2026-09-16T09:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035839"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:20:32","slug":"upi-could-have-stayed-free-ashneer-grover-opposition-slam-0-4-merchant-payment-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/upi-could-have-stayed-free-ashneer-grover-opposition-slam-0-4-merchant-payment-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018UPI could have stayed free\u2019: Ashneer Grover, Opposition slam 0.4% merchant payment charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Modi government\u2019s decision to impose a 0.4 per cent charge on UPI payments above Rs 2,000 to merchants has sparked a massive backlash among the Opposition and a section of fin-tech experts. <\/p>\n<p>The government has capped the fee at Rs 300 for payments of Rs 75,000 and above as it rolled out a framework for large digital merchant payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Modi government\u2019s decision to impose a 0.4 per cent charge on UPI payments above Rs 2,000 to merchants has sparked a massive backlash among the Opposition and a section of fin-tech experts. The government has capped the fee at Rs 300 for payments of Rs 75,000 and above as it rolled out a framework for large digital merchant payments.<\/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-1035839","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\/1035839","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=1035839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035861,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035839\/revisions\/1035861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}