India, April 29 -- Amid a growing spate of UPI outages, FM Nirmala Sitharaman today directed the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to "reinforce" UPI's robustness and prevent future disruptions.

The minister gave the directions while chairing a high-level meeting with various stakeholders of the UPI ecosystem to review real-time monitoring of the digital payments infrastructure.

"FM Smt @nsitharaman urged all stakeholders to work collaboratively to address infrastructure gaps, enhance the end-user experience and cybersecurity architecture. The Union Finance Minister directed NPCI to reinforce UPI's robustness and prevent future disruptions," the finance ministry said in a post on X.

The meeting was attended by finance secre...