{"id":956191,"date":"2025-08-20T07:26:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956191"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:03:42","slug":"subsidy-outlay-of-rs-437-crore-for-upi-rupay-transactions-may-be-revised-upward-sbi-economists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/20\/subsidy-outlay-of-rs-437-crore-for-upi-rupay-transactions-may-be-revised-upward-sbi-economists\/","title":{"rendered":"Subsidy outlay of Rs 437 crore for UPI, RuPay transactions may be revised upward: SBI economists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual subsidy of Rs 437 crore allocated in FY26 budget to support digital payments ecosystem through UPI and RuPay card transactions &#8220;may be revised upwards&#8221;, economists at country&#8217;s largest lender SBI said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Citing some estimates, the economists said participants of UPI (unified payment interface) are bearing a cost of up to Rs 5,000 crore to keep the online payment system running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual subsidy of Rs 437 crore allocated in FY26 budget to support digital payments ecosystem through UPI and RuPay card transactions &#8220;may be revised upwards&#8221;, economists at country&#8217;s largest lender SBI said on Monday. Citing some estimates, the economists said participants of UPI (unified payment interface) are bearing a cost of up to Rs 5,000 crore to keep the online payment system running.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956191","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\/956191","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=956191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}