{"id":1036431,"date":"2026-09-17T11:11:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036431"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:09:41","slug":"trader-associations-opposition-oppose-upi-charges-as-govt-rules-out-rollback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/trader-associations-opposition-oppose-upi-charges-as-govt-rules-out-rollback\/","title":{"rendered":"Trader associations, Opposition oppose UPI charges as govt rules out rollback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the Centre introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000, traders&#8217; associations said they would now push for cash payments, while the Opposition demanded an immediate rollback. The government, however, made it clear there was &#8220;no question of reversing the decision&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a PIL in the Supreme Court challenged the decision, alleging the levy was introduced without adequate statutory safeguards, transparency or public consultation. The PIL has made the Centre, the RBI, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and the UPI &amp; Services Steering Committee respondents in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the Centre introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000, traders&#8217; associations said they would now push for cash payments, while the Opposition demanded an immediate rollback. The government, however, made it clear there was &#8220;no question of reversing the decision&#8221;. Meanwhile, a PIL in the Supreme Court challenged the decision, alleging the levy was introduced without adequate statutory safeguards, transparency or public consultation. The PIL has made the Centre, the RBI, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and the UPI &amp; Services Steering Committee respondents in the case.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036431","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=1036431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036452,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036431\/revisions\/1036452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}