{"id":938383,"date":"2025-06-13T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T02:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=938383"},"modified":"2025-06-13T08:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T03:21:25","slug":"no-fee-to-be-charged-for-upi-transactions-clarifies-finance-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/13\/no-fee-to-be-charged-for-upi-transactions-clarifies-finance-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"No fee to be charged for UPI transactions, clarifies finance ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The finance ministry has said no Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) will be levied on transactions through Unified Payments Interface platforms. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Speculation and claims that the MDR will be charged on UPI transactions are completely false, baseless and misleading,&#8221; the ministry said on X on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such baseless and sensation-creating speculation causes needless uncertainty, fear and suspicion among our citizens. The government remains fully committed to promoting digital payments via UPI,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finance ministry has said no Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) will be levied on transactions through Unified Payments Interface platforms. &#8220;Speculation and claims that the MDR will be charged on UPI transactions are completely false, baseless and misleading,&#8221; the ministry said on X on Wednesday. &#8220;Such baseless and sensation-creating speculation causes needless uncertainty, fear and suspicion among our citizens. The government remains fully committed to promoting digital payments via UPI,&#8221; it said.<\/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-938383","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\/938383","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=938383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}