{"id":1048096,"date":"2026-11-09T08:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048096"},"modified":"2026-11-09T10:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:47:36","slug":"digitisation-the-story-of-how-upi-transformed-indias-digital-payments-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/09\/digitisation-the-story-of-how-upi-transformed-indias-digital-payments-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitisation: The story of how UPI transformed India\u2019s digital payments landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) had more than 55 crore users, the Centre said in July. The platform processed more than 80 crore transactions a day, according to National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) data for October 2026. <\/p>\n<p>A book chronicling the decades-long journey that culminated in the creation of UPI was launched in Calcutta on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) had more than 55 crore users, the Centre said in July. The platform processed more than 80 crore transactions a day, according to National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) data for October 2026. A book chronicling the decades-long journey that culminated in the creation of UPI was launched in Calcutta on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1048096","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\/1048096","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048104,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048096\/revisions\/1048104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}