{"id":1042580,"date":"2026-10-12T10:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042580"},"modified":"2026-10-12T11:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:29:13","slug":"economic-think-tank-says-govt-should-withdraw-proposed-upi-charges-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/economic-think-tank-says-govt-should-withdraw-proposed-upi-charges-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic think tank says govt should withdraw proposed UPI charges. Here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economic think tank, the Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) has suggested that the Centre withdraw its proposed 0.4% merchant discount rate (MDR) charge on select person-to-merchant (P2M) UPI transactions, PTI reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government should withdraw the proposed UPI charges scheduled to take effect on October 15 and keep UPI free for merchants and consumers,\u201d said GTRI Founder Ajay Srivastava.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic think tank, the Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) has suggested that the Centre withdraw its proposed 0.4% merchant discount rate (MDR) charge on select person-to-merchant (P2M) UPI transactions, PTI reported. \u201cThe government should withdraw the proposed UPI charges scheduled to take effect on October 15 and keep UPI free for merchants and consumers,\u201d said GTRI Founder Ajay Srivastava.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042580","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042581,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042580\/revisions\/1042581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}