{
  "id": 8191624,
  "title": "Govt Plans Measures To Prevent Merchants Passing UPI MDR Charges To Consumers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/govt-plans-measures-to-prevent-merchants-passing-upi-mdr-charges-to",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-18T06:21:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/govt-plans-measures-to-prevent-merchants-passing-upi-mdr-charges-to-consumers"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The government is exploring measures to ensure that the newly introduced Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on select Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions remains a cost for merchants and is not passed on to customers. As per a report by Moneycontrol, discussions are underway with payment aggregators and other stakeholders in the UPI ecosystem ahead of the October 15 implementation of the new…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}