{"id":989320,"date":"2026-02-02T11:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989320"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:47:17","slug":"govt-cuts-outlay-for-upi-rupay-incentive-scheme-by-nearly-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/govt-cuts-outlay-for-upi-rupay-incentive-scheme-by-nearly-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt cuts outlay for UPI, RuPay incentive scheme by nearly 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The central government has cut the outlay for an incentive scheme for transactions undertaken on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and homegrown card network RuPay platforms by nearly 10% for the next financial year.<\/p>\n<p>Even as transaction volumes for both UPI and RuPay have continued to rise, the outlay announced in the budget on Sunday has been cut to \u20b92,000 crore for FY27, compared to \u20b92,196 crore in FY26 (revised estimate). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The central government has cut the outlay for an incentive scheme for transactions undertaken on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and homegrown card network RuPay platforms by nearly 10% for the next financial year. Even as transaction volumes for both UPI and RuPay have continued to rise, the outlay announced in the budget on Sunday has been cut to \u20b92,000 crore for FY27, compared to \u20b92,196 crore in FY26 (revised estimate).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989320","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}