UPI Faces Second Outage In A Week

Barely a week after the Unified Payments Interface system faced an outage, several users were again unable to use their UPI apps on Wednesday.

According to Down Detector, a website which tracks the outages on digital platforms, around 383 users reported facing outage at 7:18 pm. About 51% of the users who complained of UPI outage said they were facing problems related to fund transfer, whereas 47% were facing issues related to payments.

The National Payments Corporation Of India Ltd., which is the nodal agency for digital payments in the country, noted that there were some intermittent declines in UPI due to "fluctuations in the success rates in some banks". These fluctuations increased the latency in UPI network, it added.

NPCI added that it has been working closely with those banks, and that "UPI has been stable".

Notably, UPI services faced a significant outage on March 26. Over 3,000 complaints about UPI-related issues were logged on that day at around 8 pm, as per Down Detector. Of these, 81% of users reported payment failures, 14% faced fund transfer issues, and 5% had trouble accessing UPI apps.