Budget 2021: Rs1,500 crore for digital payments industry to offset MDR losses
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The finance minister had in Budget 2019 waived off merchant discount rates (MDR) on UPI and RuPay transactions, to give a fillip to digital payments.
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Mumbai: India’s burgeoning digital payments industry received a budget boost from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman by way of a Rs 1,500 crore fund earmarked for the growth of the sector and to “incentivise” businesses deploying solutions.
Industry chief executives and experts told ET that the newly announced fund could be the much sought-after “compensation” for the losses incurred by the industry on account of the waiver of Merchant Discount Rates (MDR) on UPI and RuPay transactions announced by the finance minister in her first budget in 2019.