{"id":837289,"date":"2024-07-25T11:22:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T05:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=837289"},"modified":"2024-07-25T11:26:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T05:56:15","slug":"payment-firms-in-a-fix-as-upi-rupay-incentives-dry-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/25\/payment-firms-in-a-fix-as-upi-rupay-incentives-dry-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Payment firms in a fix as UPI, RuPay incentives dry up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fintech startups and the government\u2019s difference over charges on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions continues to remain a thorny issue after the budget\u2019s reduced preliminary allocation of Rs 1,441 crore to incentivise digital payments done via RuPay debit cards and UPI. <\/p>\n<p>This amount is much lower than the initial plan to allocate Rs 3,500 crore that was mentioned in the interim budget presented by the finance minister in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fintech startups and the government\u2019s difference over charges on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions continues to remain a thorny issue after the budget\u2019s reduced preliminary allocation of Rs 1,441 crore to incentivise digital payments done via RuPay debit cards and UPI. This amount is much lower than the initial plan to allocate Rs 3,500 crore that was mentioned in the interim budget presented by the finance minister in February.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837289","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=837289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}