{"id":1036676,"date":"2026-09-18T09:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036676"},"modified":"2026-09-18T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:28:11","slug":"monitoring-will-be-done-to-ensure-that-mdr-are-not-passed-to-the-consumer-dfs-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/monitoring-will-be-done-to-ensure-that-mdr-are-not-passed-to-the-consumer-dfs-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring will be done to ensure that MDR are not passed to the consumer : DFS official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Financial Services (DFS) has assured that the government will be monitoring that the newly notified Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on high-value UPI transactions is not passed on to consumers. <\/p>\n<p>While there is no concrete anti profiteering regulations in place, the government will be tracking in all possible ways on a daily basis to ensure that consumers are not bearing the cost, confirmed the  DFS. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Monitoring will be done to check that the merchants are not passing on the MDR to the consumers, &#8221; said the officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Financial Services (DFS) has assured that the government will be monitoring that the newly notified Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on high-value UPI transactions is not passed on to consumers. While there is no concrete anti profiteering regulations in place, the government will be tracking in all possible ways on a daily basis to ensure that consumers are not bearing the cost, confirmed the DFS. &#8220;Monitoring will be done to check that the merchants are not passing on the MDR to the consumers, &#8221; said the officials.<\/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-1036676","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\/1036676","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=1036676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036695,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036676\/revisions\/1036695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}