{"id":1043201,"date":"2026-10-14T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043201"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:24:44","slug":"upi-mdr-rollout-deferred-until-after-diwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/upi-mdr-rollout-deferred-until-after-diwali\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI MDR rollout deferred until after Diwali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The introduction of charges on select Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions has been deferred until after Diwali, giving merchants a reprieve during the festive shopping season as the proposed fee structure faced resistance from trade bodies.<\/p>\n<p>A fresh implementation date will be announced separately, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) said in a statement on Tuesday, citing a decision by its UPI and Services Steering Committee to defer the charges in view of the festive season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The introduction of charges on select Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions has been deferred until after Diwali, giving merchants a reprieve during the festive shopping season as the proposed fee structure faced resistance from trade bodies. A fresh implementation date will be announced separately, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) said in a statement on Tuesday, citing a decision by its UPI and Services Steering Committee to defer the charges in view of the festive season.<\/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-1043201","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\/1043201","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=1043201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043202,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043201\/revisions\/1043202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}