{"id":1043260,"date":"2026-10-14T10:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043260"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:08:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:38:49","slug":"upi-fee-will-not-come-into-effect-before-diwali-as-npci-defers-mdr-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/upi-fee-will-not-come-into-effect-before-diwali-as-npci-defers-mdr-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI fee will not come into effect before Diwali as NPCI defers MDR rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief to UPI users, the decision to levy a Merchant Discount Rate of 0.4 per cent on transactions over Rs 2,000 has been deferred, with NPCI on Tuesday saying a new date for the implementation will be decided after Diwali. <\/p>\n<p>According to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) circular issued last month, a 0.4 per cent MDR was to be levied on Person-to-Merchant UPI payments above Rs 2,000 from October 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief to UPI users, the decision to levy a Merchant Discount Rate of 0.4 per cent on transactions over Rs 2,000 has been deferred, with NPCI on Tuesday saying a new date for the implementation will be decided after Diwali. According to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) circular issued last month, a 0.4 per cent MDR was to be levied on Person-to-Merchant UPI payments above Rs 2,000 from October 15.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043260","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=1043260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043261,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043260\/revisions\/1043261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}