UPI down again : Users in India hit by massive outages on Paytm, GPay, PhonePe Go RBI: QR code increased by 99.5% (RBI reports).
Massive UPI Outage Hits India Again: Paytm, GPay, PhonePe Users Stuck
Second Crash in Two Months Raises Concerns UPI crashed again. And this time it wasn’t just a few users. People across India were locked out of Paytm, Google Pay, and PhonePe. Payments failed. QR codes wouldn’t scan. A nd for many, money just got stuck mid way.
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The worst part? No one really knows why.
It started early morning. One user on X (formerly Twitter) posted, “GPay not working, is UPI down?” That tweet got thousands of replies. The answer was yes. In Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru everywhere. The problem wasn’t small.
And this isn’t the first time. UPI faced a similar crash just last month. No warning then, no warning now. Frustrated users are asking why does this keep happening?
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RBI Reports Massive QR Code Boom
Strangely while the system struggles QR codes linked to UPI are booming. New data from the Reserve Bank of India shows a huge jump in UPI QR code registrations. We’re talking 657.9 million active QR codes. That’s a 91.5% rise in just one year.UPI payments are growing fast. People use them for everything from milk to medicines. Even the smallest shops now take UPI. But when the system breaks life stops. No one carries cash anymore.Credit cards aren’t picking up the slack either. Growth in card use slowed to just 7.94% over the past year. Debit card numbers barely moved only a 2.7% rise. That shows how deep UPI runs in our daily life.
Too Big to Crash?
UPI has become the backbone of small transactions in India. But with so many users and such heavy traffic small glitches can cause chaos. That’s what we’re seeing now.The big players Paytm, GPay, and PhonePe haven’t said much. Some posted short updates saying they’re “looking into it.”But the users are bored. Answer: I do not want auto responses.UPI confidence goes Down further if this continues
For now, it is working again. But for how long?
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