New Delhi (NVI): A media report has claimed that UPI transactions will become expensive from the new year and additional charges will be levied on payment from third party apps.
The Fact Check Unit of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) has investigated the viral news and found it to be fake. It said that no such decision has been taken by the National Payments Corporation.
Debunking the fake news, PIB took to Twitter and wrote in Hindi, “Claim: In a #News, it is being claimed that from the new year UPI transactions will become expensive and there will be an additional charge for payment from third party apps.
#PIBFactCheck: This claim is false. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has not taken any such decision.”
दावा : एक #खबर में दावा किया जा रहा है कि नए साल से यूपीआई ट्रांज़ैक्शन महंगे हो जाएंगे व थर्ड पार्टी एप्स से पेमेंट करने पर अतिरिक्त चार्ज लगेंगे। #PIBFactCheck : यह दावा गलत है। @NPCI_NPCI ने ऐसा कोई निर्णय नहीं लिया है।
यहाँ पढ़ें :https://t.co/w7qCPAGSZE pic.twitter.com/UAgddBTjPP
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) December 9, 2020
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has also revealed on its Twitter that the news about UPI transactions being charged from January 1, 2021 is completely fake. Our press release dated November 5, 2020, has no correlation with pricing or charges whatsoever.
At present, options are open for many UPI transactions such as Google Pay, Paytm, Amazon Pay among others. The services on this app will continue to run smoothly.
Significantly, many such fake news have gone viral even before and the PIB launched fact-checking unit in December last year, to check such misinformation and viral fake news related to government’s policies and schemes that are circulating on social media platforms.
-RJV
