India’s most widely used digital payments platform, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), suffered yet another major outage on Saturday, April 12, second this month, disrupting transactions for thousands of users across the country.
Popular third-party platforms like Google Pay, Paytm and PhonePe were also impacted, triggering a wave of complaints on social media and outage monitoring platforms.
Addressing the latest disruption, NPCI wrote on X: “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 (sic).”
This marks the sixth major outage UPI has faced in the past year and comes just days after two back-to-back disruptions in late March and early April.
