{"id":1038585,"date":"2026-09-25T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038585"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:07:34","slug":"upi-mdr-row-proposed-0-4-fee-above-rs-2000-wont-reach-consumers-govt-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/25\/upi-mdr-row-proposed-0-4-fee-above-rs-2000-wont-reach-consumers-govt-says\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI MDR row: Proposed 0.4% fee above Rs 2,000 won\u2019t reach consumers, govt says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed merchant fee of 0.4 per cent on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000 will not be passed on to consumers, government sources said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The sources said not a &#8220;single penny&#8221; from the proposed MDR will go to the government coffers. <\/p>\n<p>The amount will be shared among banks and other entities in the UPI ecosystem, they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed merchant fee of 0.4 per cent on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000 will not be passed on to consumers, government sources said on Thursday. The sources said not a &#8220;single penny&#8221; from the proposed MDR will go to the government coffers. The amount will be shared among banks and other entities in the UPI ecosystem, they added.<\/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-1038585","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\/1038585","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=1038585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038607,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038585\/revisions\/1038607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}