Unified Payments Interface (UPI) companies have been affected with a number of experiences of failure of transactions from throughout the nation.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which manages the UPI operations, acknowledged the outage and stated that it was working to resolve the difficulty, hours after a number of users flagged the difficulty.
“NPCI is currently facing intermittent technical issues, leading to partial UPI transaction declines. We are working to resolve the issue, and will keep you updated. We regret the inconvenience caused,” the NPCI stated in a submit on X.
Saturday’s (April 12, 2025) outage occurs to be the second such incidence this month. On April 2, users of the UPI funds server of some banks had additionally skilled some latency for a quick time period. This was a day after April 1 when banks expertise some procedural points owing to closing of the monetary yr. Services have been nevertheless restored in each situations.
Outage monitoring web site Downdetector confirmed that users first began experiencing points with the funds interface at about 11:50 a.m. on Saturday (April 12, 2025). The variety of complaints peaked round 1 p.m. with greater than 2,300 individuals having reported their expertise. According to the web site, 81% of the users complained about points relating to funds, 17% fund transfers and a pair of% purchases.
Several users confronted problem in paying even small quantities because the UPI transactions failed. Some users reported that they obtained the error message “Recipient’s bank network is down. You’re not able to make payment to your recipient’s bank. Please try paying to a different bank account.”
Published – April 12, 2025 01:42 pm IST
