{"id":1035842,"date":"2026-09-16T09:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035842"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:21:17","slug":"modi-govt-has-quietly-opened-door-to-fees-on-upi-rahul-gandhi-cong-after-notification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/modi-govt-has-quietly-opened-door-to-fees-on-upi-rahul-gandhi-cong-after-notification\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Modi govt has quietly opened door to fees on UPI\u2019: Rahul Gandhi, Cong after notification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s government has \u201cquietly opened the door to imposing fees on UPI,\u201d leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday as the Congress asked whether this was being done to open digital payments for American firms to &#8220;appease&#8221; US President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>The reaction came a day after a finance ministry notification directed banks and payment system providers not to levy charges on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions of up to Rs 2,000 or on payments made through RuPay debit cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s government has \u201cquietly opened the door to imposing fees on UPI,\u201d leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday as the Congress asked whether this was being done to open digital payments for American firms to &#8220;appease&#8221; US President Donald Trump. The reaction came a day after a finance ministry notification directed banks and payment system providers not to levy charges on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions of up to Rs 2,000 or on payments made through RuPay debit cards.<\/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-1035842","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\/1035842","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=1035842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035864,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035842\/revisions\/1035864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}