UPI payments may not work reliably after midnight for few days: NPCI

PTI, Jan 22, 2021, 12:06 PM IST

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New Delhi: The National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) on Thursday via a tweet informed users to avoid making transactions through Unified Payments Interface (UPI) between 1 am to 3 am for next few days as its platform is going under upgradation process.

“For you to have a better, safer payment experience, we’re upgrading our UPI platform. UPI users may face inconvenience from midnight 1 am to 3 am for the next few days.” The platform is widely in use for making digital payments. It facilitates direct transfer of money from sender’s bank account to receiver’s,” the NPCI tweeted.

NPCI, which runs Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has however not specified the number of days for which the online payment platform will be under the process.

The official website of NPCI says that the platform uses Information Security Team for managing and reducing cyber threats. This is done by “leveraging technologies appropriately deployed which are used by constantly trained professionals using well developed procedures adopted from various industry best practices and guidelines,”as mentioned on the website.