{"id":1036275,"date":"2026-09-17T09:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036275"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:57:37","slug":"u-turn-in-a-year-modi-govt-had-denied-there-were-plans-to-levy-charges-on-upi-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/u-turn-in-a-year-modi-govt-had-denied-there-were-plans-to-levy-charges-on-upi-transactions\/","title":{"rendered":"U-turn in a year: Modi govt had denied there were plans to levy charges on UPI transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union finance ministry had last year called \u201ccompletely false, baseless, and misleading\u201d reports that the government was planning to charge a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI transactions, a number of social media users highlighted on Wednesday as outrage over the charges on the cashless mode of payment grew. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeculation and claims that the MDR will be charged on UPI transactions are completely false, baseless, and misleading,\u201d the finance ministry had posted from its verified account on X (formerly Twitter) on June 11, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union finance ministry had last year called \u201ccompletely false, baseless, and misleading\u201d reports that the government was planning to charge a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI transactions, a number of social media users highlighted on Wednesday as outrage over the charges on the cashless mode of payment grew. \u201cSpeculation and claims that the MDR will be charged on UPI transactions are completely false, baseless, and misleading,\u201d the finance ministry had posted from its verified account on X (formerly Twitter) on June 11, 2025.<\/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-1036275","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\/1036275","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=1036275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036330,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036275\/revisions\/1036330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}