Payment apps like Google Pay, Paytm, PhonePe, and others, as well as banks, have been requested by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to deactivate UPI IDs and numbers that have not been used for more than a year.
Additionally, certain merchant UPI transactions above ₹ 2,000 that are done through online wallets or other prepaid payment instruments (PPI) would be subject to an interchange fee of 1.1%.
UPI ATMs, which allow you to withdraw money from your bank account by scanning a QR code, will soon be installed throughout India thanks to a partnership between RBI and the Japanese corporation Hitachi.
A four-hour time limit would be imposed each time a user begins the first payment over ₹ 2,000 to a user they have never transacted with before in an effort to stop the growing number of cases of online payment fraud.
Shaktikanta Das, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, revealed in the bimonthly Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting that the transaction limit for UPI payments made to hospitals and educational institutions has been increased from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh.