{"id":1042823,"date":"2026-10-13T09:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042823"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T04:30:49","slug":"tamil-nadu-one-day-upi-boycott-called-by-traders-receives-mixed-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/13\/tamil-nadu-one-day-upi-boycott-called-by-traders-receives-mixed-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu: One-day UPI boycott called by traders receives mixed response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The one-day boycott of UPI payments called by the Tamil Nadu Vanigar Sangangalin Peramaippu on Monday received a mixed response in Chennai, with many shops continuing to accept digital payments despite the traders\u2019 appeal to use cash. <\/p>\n<p>The traders\u2019 body had called for the boycott on October 12 to protest against the proposed 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate on person-to-merchant UPI transactions above Rs 2,000. It argued that the charge could increase the burden on traders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The one-day boycott of UPI payments called by the Tamil Nadu Vanigar Sangangalin Peramaippu on Monday received a mixed response in Chennai, with many shops continuing to accept digital payments despite the traders\u2019 appeal to use cash. The traders\u2019 body had called for the boycott on October 12 to protest against the proposed 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate on person-to-merchant UPI transactions above Rs 2,000. It argued that the charge could increase the burden on traders.<\/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-1042823","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\/1042823","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=1042823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042851,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042823\/revisions\/1042851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}