Nationwide UPI Outage Disrupts Payments Across All Platforms News24 –

Unified Payment Interface (UPI) is down across all payment applications aps in India on Wednesday, according to Down Detector. The DD chart shows that the problem started at 4 pm with “24 complaints” and continued at 8.27 pm.

According to UPI, 16.99 billion payments surpassed on January 2025. The highest number of complaints, 3200, was reported at 7.45 pm. The problem was reported at Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kanpur and other states, according to the website. 83 percent of the problem were occurred during payments, 13 percent fund transfer and 4 percent in app at 8.27 pm.

296 complaints received on Google Pay, 119 on Paytm and 376 reported by State Bank of India Users. Majority of complaints received from people using SBI bank.

“For the first time in my life I’ve experienced UPI downtime. Not Banks, or gateways, but @UPI_NPCI itself btw, uptime was 100% in feb,” an X user, posted on the social media platform.

UPI is down for the first time & it is already showing an impact.

Most of us already stopped carrying liquid cash & this downtime has created a do or die situation 😂

Elders were right about carrying cash ✅️ pic.twitter.com/7QBSnfwNXr

— Yaswanth Sai Palaghat (@yaswanthtweet) March 26, 2025

Another user said on X, “What is is this Nonsense.?? UPI not Working. My Money is debited but Not credited to My friend account @UPI_NPCI.”

“UPI is down for the first time & it is already showing an impact. Most of us already stopped carrying liquid cash & this downtime has created a do or die situation. Elders were right about carrying cash, said the third one on X.