{"id":133538,"date":"2024-09-13T04:48:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T04:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/thought-would-be-impossible-german-foreign-minister-to-s-jaishankar-on-upi-payments\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T04:48:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T04:48:05","slug":"thought-would-be-impossible-german-foreign-minister-to-s-jaishankar-on-upi-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/thought-would-be-impossible-german-foreign-minister-to-s-jaishankar-on-upi-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought would be impossible…: German foreign minister to S Jaishankar on UPI payments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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German Foreign Minister<\/a> Annalena Baerbock has lauded the Unified Payments Interface<\/a> (UPI) for its fast payment features. During the Annual Ambassadors\u2019 Conference in Berlin, where she spoke alongside Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar, Baerbock reflected on her tenure as ambassador to India two years prior, recalling how she observed people using UPI<\/a> to purchase groceries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe met two years ago for the first time when I was in Delhi. I used your Metro and experienced your modernisation strategy kilometre by kilometre,\u201d Baerbock recalled.<\/p>\n

She added that she was impressed by UPI after seeing people buying groceries on the streets and using the digital instant payments system to make payments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also saw people buying groceries and was very impressed by your Unified Payments Interface, a digital instant payment system. I thought this would be impossible in Germany,\u201d she added<\/p>\n

\u201c…but we also watched that closely, and we did a big jump compared to our speed here in Germany. Also, with regard to digitalisation, I saw not only that it’s possible to pay on the street with digital payments<\/a> but also I saw unfortunately in our Embassy, in our consulate that we are carrying application forms for Visa still in boxes,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n


\u201cSo I thought, \u2018Okay, I cannot change the payment on the street, but I can definitely change the digitalisation in our ministry\u2019,\u201d Baerbock said.German minister uses UPI to buy vegetables in India
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Last year, Volker Wissing, who is minister for transport in Germany, was seen impressed by the UPI system in the viral clip, shared by the German Embassy in India on X. Wissing was seen buying vegetables from a street vendor in Bengaluru and used the UPI system to make the payment.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of India’s success stories is its digital infrastructure. UPI enables seamless transactions within seconds, with millions of Indians using it. Federal Minister for Digital and Transport @Wissing experienced the simplicity of UPI payments<\/a> firsthand and was highly impressed!\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n

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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has lauded the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) for its fast payment features. During the Annual Ambassadors\u2019 Conference in Berlin, where she spoke alongside Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar, Baerbock reflected on her tenure as ambassador to India two years prior, recalling how she observed people using UPI to purchase groceries. \u201cWe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-113292167,imgsize-83628.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[107110,21962,33,10563,107109,107108,12443,3607,2124,672,14902,36089,1322,36656,107107],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133540,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133538\/revisions\/133540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}