{"id":1036314,"date":"2026-09-17T10:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036314"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:32:52","slug":"plea-in-sc-against-imposition-of-mdr-on-upi-payments-of-above-rs-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/plea-in-sc-against-imposition-of-mdr-on-upi-payments-of-above-rs-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Plea in SC against imposition of MDR on UPI payments of above Rs 2,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A public interest litigation (PIL) matter has been filed in the Supreme Court, challenging the Centre&#8217;s decision to impose a merchant discount rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant transactions of above Rs 2,000, saying the levy has been introduced without adequate statutory safeguards, transparency or public consultation. <\/p>\n<p>The government has introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on UPI payments of more than Rs 2,000 made to merchants from October 15. Under this, a merchant discount rate (MDR) of 0.4 per cent is to be levied on person-to-merchant transactions of above Rs 2,000. However, no MDR is to be levied on UPI transactions of up to Rs 2,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public interest litigation (PIL) matter has been filed in the Supreme Court, challenging the Centre&#8217;s decision to impose a merchant discount rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant transactions of above Rs 2,000, saying the levy has been introduced without adequate statutory safeguards, transparency or public consultation. The government has introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on UPI payments of more than Rs 2,000 made to merchants from October 15. Under this, a merchant discount rate (MDR) of 0.4 per cent is to be levied on person-to-merchant transactions of above Rs 2,000. However, no MDR is to be levied on [&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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036314","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=1036314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036397,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036314\/revisions\/1036397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}