On March 26, at around 7 pm, the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) will suddenly go down. After UPI went down, GPay, PhonePe, Paytm and Bhim app users faced a lot of problems.
Due to UPI outage, customers of HDFC Bank, State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and Kotak Mahindra Bank faced a lot of problems in online payments. Due to UPI being down, thousands across the country were neither able to receive money nor transfer money. However, now UPI has been completely fixed and now all the services are working as before.
Due to this outage which lasted for about one and a half hours, users using different applications faced many problems. After this, NPCI tweeted and informed about the restoration of UPI services. NPCI also released an official statement regarding the reason for the outage.
NPCI had faced intermittent technical issues owing to which UPI had partial decline. The same has been addressed now and the system has stabilised. Regret the inconvenience.
— NPCI (@NPCI_NPCI) March 26, 2025
NPCI posted on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that the outage was due to technical problems. NPCI said that all the technical problems have now been completely resolved and now users can use UPI.
According to DownDetector, the problem with UPI started by 7:50 pm. Within a short time, thousands of complaints were registered on the website regarding the outage. Let us tell you that India’s Unified Payments Interface is a popular online payment service. It has been designed by the National Payments Corporation of India. At present, no response has been given by NPCI regarding the UPI outage.
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