MPs, mostly belonging to the Opposition, on Wednesday expressed concern over the government’s decision to levy a fee on UPI payments above Rs 2000 to merchants, claiming that the entire population of the country would be affected due to the “anti-people” move.
Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance Bhartruhari Mahtab said that some MPs raised the issue at the meeting and said that it may be taken up at the next meeting of the panel.
RSP MP NK Premchandran, who is a member of the committee, said that the entire population of the country would be affected by the government’s decision to levy a fee on payments of above Rs 2000 to merchants.
“It is a completely anti-people decision,” Premchandran said.
Ending nearly six years of fully free UPI payments, the government on Tuesday introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on transfers worth more than Rs 2,000 made to merchants through UPI from October 15, while explicitly ring-fencing everyday person-to-person transactions as we
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