{"id":938116,"date":"2025-06-12T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T03:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=938116"},"modified":"2025-06-12T10:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T04:47:58","slug":"finance-ministry-dismisses-speculation-of-mdr-of-upi-transactions-says-claims-false-baseless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/12\/finance-ministry-dismisses-speculation-of-mdr-of-upi-transactions-says-claims-false-baseless\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Ministry dismisses speculation of MDR of UPI transactions, says claims false, baseless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): The Finance Ministry on Wednesday termed as &#8220;false, baseless, and misleading&#8221; speculation that the Merchant Discount Rate (MDR)will be charged on UPI transactions. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Speculation and claims that the MDR will be charged on UPI transactions are completely false, baseless, and misleading. Such baseless and sensation-creating speculations cause needless uncertainty, fear and suspicion among our citizens,&#8221; Finance Ministry said in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): The Finance Ministry on Wednesday termed as &#8220;false, baseless, and misleading&#8221; speculation that the Merchant Discount Rate (MDR)will be charged on UPI transactions. &#8220;Speculation and claims that the MDR will be charged on UPI transactions are completely false, baseless, and misleading. Such baseless and sensation-creating speculations cause needless uncertainty, fear and suspicion among our citizens,&#8221; Finance Ministry said in a post on X.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938116","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=938116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}