{"id":916749,"date":"2025-03-25T09:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T03:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=916749"},"modified":"2025-03-25T09:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T03:32:51","slug":"payments-body-writes-to-pmo-seeks-return-of-mdr-on-upi-for-large-merchants-and-rupay-debit-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/25\/payments-body-writes-to-pmo-seeks-return-of-mdr-on-upi-for-large-merchants-and-rupay-debit-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Payments body writes to PMO, seeks return of MDR on UPI for large merchants and RuPay debit cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Payments Council of India (PCI), an industry body representing digital payments companies, has written to the Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO), requesting the reintroduction of a merchant discount rate (MDR) on RuPay debit cards and UPI transactions for large merchants only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Payments Council of India (PCI), an industry body representing digital payments companies, has written to the Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO), requesting the reintroduction of a merchant discount rate (MDR) on RuPay debit cards and UPI transactions for large merchants only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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-916749","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\/916749","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}