{"id":1037601,"date":"2026-09-22T09:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037601"},"modified":"2026-09-22T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:24:33","slug":"gig-workers-seek-protection-from-upi-deductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/22\/gig-workers-seek-protection-from-upi-deductions\/","title":{"rendered":"Gig workers seek protection from UPI deductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Gig and platform workers have urged the Centre, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and digital payment platforms to ensure that the proposed Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on select UPI transactions does not result in deductions from workers\u2019 earnings. <\/p>\n<p>The demand comes amid a reported framework proposing a 0.4% MDR on selected person-to-merchant (P2M) UPI transactions above 2,000, with the charge capped at Rs 300 for transactions of Rs 75,000 and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Gig and platform workers have urged the Centre, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and digital payment platforms to ensure that the proposed Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on select UPI transactions does not result in deductions from workers\u2019 earnings. The demand comes amid a reported framework proposing a 0.4% MDR on selected person-to-merchant (P2M) UPI transactions above 2,000, with the charge 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-1037601","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\/1037601","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=1037601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037630,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037601\/revisions\/1037630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}