Difficulty in UPI transactions across the country, 'technical problem' has become the reason

New -delhi, April 12 (IANS). Digital Payment Service came to a standstill throughout the country on Saturday by Unified Payments Interface (UPI). Millions of users have had problems due to the Down of UPI service. There was an obstacle to different online payment platforms regarding digital service, whereby users had difficulty purchasing the payment and business transactions. According to the detector detector, 2.358 complaints were filed until 13:00. 81 percent of the largest number of charges regarding UPI service were recorded. At the same time, 17 percent of complaints about the transfer of funds were recorded. The National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), which operates UPI services, said there was a problem with UPI service due to technical problems. The NPCI has written in a post on social media platform X, “NPCI currently has technical problems, which interrupts UPI transactions.” On behalf of NPCI, it was further said: “We are working on this problem and will continue to update. We are sorry for the inconvenience to the users.” Important banking programs such as SBI, ICICI and HDFC have also been affected by UPI service. A user on X has written, “UPI is off again. It’s good that I always hold cash. Cash is always king.” Another user wrote: “These days it has become very common. First, UPI goes down, and then banks declare their own ‘downtime’ for UPI transactions.” According to NPCI’s latest data, UPI recorded the amount of 18.3 billion transactions in March. The amount of transactions recorded a monthly increase of 13.59 percent. The same amount of the transaction in February was 16.11 billion. The UPI-based transaction records in March were Rs 24.77 Lakh Crore, which in February is 12.79 percent more than Rs 21.96 Lakh Crore. According to NPCI data, UPI network recorded average transactions of over 590 million with a number of daily transactions of Rs 79.910 crore on a daily basis. In March, a record focus of Rs 24.77 Lakh Crore, UPI transactions recorded an impressive 25 percent increase in the price and 36 percent in the quantity. -Ians skt/abm