{"id":1039128,"date":"2026-09-28T09:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039128"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:41:09","slug":"sc-to-take-up-petition-against-imposition-of-0-4-mdr-on-upi-payments-of-above-rs-2000-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/28\/sc-to-take-up-petition-against-imposition-of-0-4-mdr-on-upi-payments-of-above-rs-2000-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"SC to take up petition against imposition of 0.4% MDR on UPI payments of above Rs 2,000 on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court will take up on Monday a PIL challenging the Centre\u2019s decision to impose a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant transactions of over Rs 2,000. <\/p>\n<p>The PIL filed by advocate Anjan Datta is listed for hearing before a Bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on September 28. <\/p>\n<p>Ending nearly six years of fully free UPI payments, the Centre has introduced a 0.4 per cent merchant discount rate (MDR) on UPI payments of more than Rs 2,000 to be levied on P2M transactions of above Rs 2,000. However, no MDR will be levied on UPI transactions of up to Rs 2,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court will take up on Monday a PIL challenging the Centre\u2019s decision to impose a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant transactions of over Rs 2,000. The PIL filed by advocate Anjan Datta is listed for hearing before a Bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on September 28. Ending nearly six years of fully free UPI payments, the Centre has introduced a 0.4 per cent merchant discount rate (MDR) on UPI payments of more than Rs 2,000 to be levied on P2M transactions of above Rs 2,000. However, no MDR will be levied [&hellip;]<\/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-1039128","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\/1039128","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=1039128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039173,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039128\/revisions\/1039173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}