UPI servers restored after brief outage

ICICI Bank has reportedly notified that its UPI system is down due to maintenance activities. (Representative image)

The services of Unified Payment Interface (UPI), the instant payment interface developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), were restored on January 9 following a brief outage that lasted for around an hour's period.

NPCI, in an update shared on social media, said the services had went down due to an "intermittent technical glitch".

"Regret the inconvenience to #UPI users due to intermittent technical glitch. #UPI is operational now, and we are monitoring system closely. (sic)," it said.

Regret the inconvenience to #UPI users due to intermittent technical glitch. #UPI is operational now, and we are monitoring system closely.

— NPCI (@NPCI_NPCI) January 9, 2022

Several users had taken to Twitter to report that the UPI server was down and they were not being able to make any transactions using digital wallets and online payment platforms such as Google Pay and Paytm.

Is it just me or multiple bank servers/UPI are down? — Nehal Chaliawala (@Nehal_ET) January 9, 2022

Google Pay, PhonePe, paytm and all kind of UPI payment servers are down today. Please check before making a payment today. #googlepay#phonepe#Paytm#serverdown — Stewin Samuel (@StewinSamuel) January 9, 2022

@KotakBankLtd@KotakCares upi servers down . Transfer failures.unsuccessful payments. From last 2 hr what you guys are doing . Server down from almost 3 hr — Sunny nagpal (@iamsunny_nagpal) January 9, 2022

ICICI Bank has reportedly notified that its UPI system is down due to maintenance activities.

Tech reviewer Nitin Agarwal had tweeted: “Yes, ICICI Bank has notified that its UPI system is down because of maintenance activities. Not sure about other apps though. Didn't know they work on Sundays too but doing such activities actually makes sense on weekends though.”