{"id":953258,"date":"2025-08-07T08:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=953258"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:26:24","slug":"upi-cant-stay-free-forever-rbi-governor-sanjay-malhotra-hints-cost-of-running-digital-payments-infrastructure-may-fall-on-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/07\/upi-cant-stay-free-forever-rbi-governor-sanjay-malhotra-hints-cost-of-running-digital-payments-infrastructure-may-fall-on-users\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;UPI can\u2019t stay free forever&#8217;: RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra hints cost of running digital payments infrastructure may fall on users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Wednesday said the unified payments interface (UPI), which has revolutionised the payments system in the country, may not stay free forever, indicating that eventually the cost of running the digital payments infrastructure might be passed on to the users.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Wednesday said the unified payments interface (UPI), which has revolutionised the payments system in the country, may not stay free forever, indicating that eventually the cost of running the digital payments infrastructure might be passed on to the users.<\/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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953258","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=953258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}