No Cash, UPI Down? Here's how you can still pay without any worry

The UPI service has experienced outages three times in the past two weeks, causing significant inconvenience for millions of users. With the growing popularity of digital payments, the number of UPI users is consistently on the rise, leading to frequent server crashes. According to the latest data from NPCI, over 400,000 UPI transactions occur every minute, resulting in about 23 million transactions every hour across India. This heavy reliance on UPI can be seen in how many people have started to carry little to no cash in their wallets. Last Saturday, users faced frustrations due to issues with the UPI server. Many were unable to make payments at shopping malls and restaurants. For those without cash, there are still ways to carry out digital transactions even when UPI servers are down.

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