{"id":1039010,"date":"2026-09-28T08:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039010"},"modified":"2026-09-28T08:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:55:32","slug":"mdr-on-upi-payments-above-rs-2000-supreme-court-to-hear-challenge-plea-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/28\/mdr-on-upi-payments-above-rs-2000-supreme-court-to-hear-challenge-plea-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"MDR on UPI payments above Rs 2,000: Supreme Court to hear challenge plea on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday hear a plea challenging the Centre&#8217;s decision to impose a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant transactions of over Rs 2,000. <\/p>\n<p>Ending nearly six years of fully free UPI payments, the government has introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on transfers worth over Rs 2,000 made to merchants through the UPI platform from October 15 while explicitly ring-fencing everyday person-to-person transactions and small payments from any charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday hear a plea challenging the Centre&#8217;s decision to impose a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant transactions of over Rs 2,000. Ending nearly six years of fully free UPI payments, the government has introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on transfers worth over Rs 2,000 made to merchants through the UPI platform from October 15 while explicitly ring-fencing everyday person-to-person transactions and small payments from any charge.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039010","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=1039010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039044,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039010\/revisions\/1039044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}