{"id":1036258,"date":"2026-09-17T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036258"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:31:29","slug":"centre-rules-out-rollback-of-mdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/centre-rules-out-rollback-of-mdr\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre rules out rollback of MDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has ruled out any rollback of the proposed Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on certain UPI payments above Rs 2,000. A top official said that when a decision has been taken, there is no question of reversing it. <\/p>\n<p>The government on Tuesday introduced a 0.4% fee on transfers worth more than Rs 2,000 made to merchants through the platform from October 15. The MDR is capped at Rs 300 for transactions of Rs 75,000 and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has ruled out any rollback of the proposed Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on certain UPI payments above Rs 2,000. A top official said that when a decision has been taken, there is no question of reversing it. The government on Tuesday introduced a 0.4% fee on transfers worth more than Rs 2,000 made to merchants through the platform from October 15. The MDR is capped at Rs 300 for transactions of Rs 75,000 and above.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036258","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=1036258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036274,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036258\/revisions\/1036274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}