{"id":922144,"date":"2025-04-15T07:55:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T02:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=922144"},"modified":"2025-04-15T08:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T02:39:07","slug":"upi-overload-is-indias-digital-payments-backbone-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/15\/upi-overload-is-indias-digital-payments-backbone-under-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI overload: Is India\u2019s digital payments backbone under pressure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With three outages in just 30 days, India\u2019s pride in the payments space\u2014the now-ubiquitous Unified Payments Interface (UPI)\u2014seems to be in a bit of a spot. Indeed, over the past year, there have been as many as six disruptions, an indication that the system may be stretched. While the National Payments Council of India (NPCI), which runs the system, did eventually fix the glitches, the inconvenience to users looking to transact cannot be brushed aside. The magnitude of the problem is evident from the fact that around 600 million transactions take place via UPI every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With three outages in just 30 days, India\u2019s pride in the payments space\u2014the now-ubiquitous Unified Payments Interface (UPI)\u2014seems to be in a bit of a spot. Indeed, over the past year, there have been as many as six disruptions, an indication that the system may be stretched. While the National Payments Council of India (NPCI), which runs the system, did eventually fix the glitches, the inconvenience to users looking to transact cannot be brushed aside. The magnitude of the problem is evident from the fact that around 600 million transactions take place via UPI every day.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922144","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=922144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}