PARLIAMENT–Nearly 55.49 Crore Users Onboarded on UPI as in June 2026

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is a payment system operated by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), authorised under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007.

The NPCI has informed that there were 55.49 crore users onboarded on UPI platform as in June 2026.

NPCI International Payments Ltd. (NIPL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of NPCI, incorporated in April 2020 with the objective of partnering with foreign entities to take various NPCI payment platforms, such as UPI and the RuPay card scheme, to international markets. This enables Indian tourists and the Indian diaspora to make seamless cross-border payments while assisting partner countries and entities in building their payment infrastructure, such as UPI-like real-time payment systems or RuPay like domestic card schemes.

This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance Pankaj Chaudhary in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today. (UPDATED ON 20TH JULY 2026)