{"id":1035850,"date":"2026-09-16T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035850"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:23:36","slug":"congress-flags-us-pressure-on-upi-move-questions-possible-charges-above-rs-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/congress-flags-us-pressure-on-upi-move-questions-possible-charges-above-rs-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress flags \u2018US pressure\u2019 on UPI move, questions possible charges above Rs 2,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress has alleged that Monday\u2019s government notification barring bank charges for UPI payments up to \u20b92,000 and RuPay debit card transactions indicates US pressure to give their payment companies an advantage. <\/p>\n<p>Lok Sabha Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi posted on X: \u201cNow, MDR can be levied on merchant UPI transactions above \u20b92,000. Even if these transactions account for just 5 per cent of the volume, they make up nearly 65 per cent of UPI\u2019s total transaction value. The government says no fees will be charged to customers. But where will the fees imposed on shopkeepers ultimately come from? Added to prices, straight out of the customer\u2019s pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress has alleged that Monday\u2019s government notification barring bank charges for UPI payments up to \u20b92,000 and RuPay debit card transactions indicates US pressure to give their payment companies an advantage. Lok Sabha Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi posted on X: \u201cNow, MDR can be levied on merchant UPI transactions above \u20b92,000. Even if these transactions account for just 5 per cent of the volume, they make up nearly 65 per cent of UPI\u2019s total transaction value. The government says no fees will be charged to customers. But where will the fees imposed on shopkeepers ultimately come from? Added to [&hellip;]<\/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-1035850","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\/1035850","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=1035850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035872,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035850\/revisions\/1035872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}