Ganga Narayan Rath
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- Aug 6, 2026
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- Jul 17, 2026
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Service charge on UPI transactions makes sense (opens the original)
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The Finance Ministry recently tabled a bill proposing to amend the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 empowering the government to levy MDR (Merchant Discount Rate) on “one or more electronic modes” of payment, including UPI.” The debate over subjecting UPI transactions to a service charge — MDR — was initiated in August 2022 by the RBI itself through a “Discussion Paper on Changes in Payment System.” To promote UPI at that time, the Finance Ministry rightfully set aside the RBI paper, whi
IDBI Bankâs long, bumpy road to privatisation (opens the original)
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Some institutions age gracefully. IDBI didnât. Built for one job, forced into another, it nearly broke doing it and had to be pulled back by an insurer that wasnât even in banking. Over six decades on, itâs still unclear who it belongs to â the government, LIC, or soon, perhaps, a Canadian investment firm. IDBI wasnât born a bank. Parliament created it on July 1, 1964, as a wholly-owned RBI subsidiary, with the bill passed almost recklessly fast â introduced and cleared in the Lok Sa
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