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Payment System Indicators - April 2022
PART I - Payment System Indicators - Payment & Settlement System Statistics
  Volume (lakh) Value (₹ crore)
FY 2021-22 2021 April 2022 2022 FY 2021-22 2021 April 2022 2022
March April March April
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
A. Settlement Systems                
Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)                
1 CCIL Operated Systems 33.01 2.36 3.25 3.06 206873112 15138384 20588727 18651860
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing 12.22 0.83 1.04 1.08 142072939 9963717 13682354 11915370
1.1.1 Outright 6.22 0.41 0.46 0.59 8793301 739674 660443 870328
1.1.2 Repo 3.08 0.21 0.30 0.25 51015712 3829853 5341282 4315711
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 2.92 0.20 0.27 0.23 82263926 5394189 7680629 6729332
1.2 Forex Clearing 19.91 1.49 2.11 1.87 59775826 4913256 6232193 6124936
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 0.88 0.05 0.11 0.11 5024347 261411 674180 611554
B. Payment Systems                
I Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)                
1 Credit Transfers - RTGS 2078.39 151.52 230.04 195.32 128657516 8802868 14458955 11097594
1.1 Customer Transactions 2063.73 150.19 228.68 194.11 113319292 7555042 13069669 9780600
1.2 Interbank Transactions 14.66 1.33 1.36 1.21 15338225 1247825 1389286 1316994
II Retail                
2 Credit Transfers - Retail 577631.89 34506.22 66272.08 66747.57 42722828 2946342 5062364 4050335
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 9.76 0.94 0.56 0.55 575 61 35 33
2.2 APBS $ 12298.50 972.73 1154.92 1119.53 133052 5383 15462 11118
2.3 IMPS 46625.25 3229.68 4920.01 4716.26 4171037 299542 462279 444670
2.4 NACH Cr $ 18729.79 1029.55 1825.88 1329.76 1276801 101457 131428 112354
2.5 NEFT 40407.29 2862.71 4314.20 3737.59 28725463 2046235 3492578 2498587
2.6 UPI @ 459561.30 26410.61 54056.51 55843.88 8415900 493664 960582 983573
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 11.99 0.96 0.91 0.86 177 15 12 12
3 Debit Transfers and Direct Debits 12222.27 961.29 1136.67 1121.68 1038334 79291 98645 93616
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 227.73 13.88 19.47 16.76 6113 377 640 580
3.2 NACH Dr $ 10787.53 854.05 979.27 996.72 1030531 78776 97801 92902
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1207.02 93.36 137.93 108.20 1689 139 204 135
4 Card Payments 61,782.93 4,788.55 5,512.70 5,541.17 17,01,851 1,15,232 1,71,159 1,70,521
4.1 Credit Cards 22,398.82 1,575.32 2,237.51 2,229.30 9,71,638 59,049 1,07,107 1,05,459
4.1.1 PoS based $ 11124.59 782.31 1134.33 1152.87 380643 26314 38777 39807
4.1.2 Others $ 11274.23 793.00 1103.18 1076.43 590994 32735 68330 65652
4.2 Debit Cards 39,384.11 3,213.23 3,275.19 3,311.87 730213 56183 64052 65062
4.2.1 PoS based $ 22967.10 1794.37 2078.45 2131.77 451550 35621 40770 43530
4.2.2 Others $ 16417.00 1418.86 1196.73 1180.10 278663 20562 23282 21532
5 Prepaid Payment Instruments 65,812.39 4,800.66 6,567.09 6,551.30 293658 22148 27865 27664
5.1 Wallets 52683.01 3963.08 5016.86 5036.15 226645 14421 20054 19360
5.2 Cards 13,129.38 837.58 1,550.23 1,515.15 67014 7727 7811 8305
5.2.1 PoS based $ 1066.47 50.39 164.77 169.34 18123 1517 2860 3183
5.2.2 Others $ 12062.91 787.19 1385.46 1345.81 48891 6209 4951 5121
6 Paper-based Instruments 6,999.12 557.79 702.93 624.01 6650333 553322 694335 670259
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 6999.12 557.79 702.93 624.01 6650333 553322 694335 670259
6.2 Others 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 7,24,448.61 45,614.50 80,191.47 80,585.73 52407004 3716336 6054368 5012396
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 7,26,527.00 45,766.02 80,421.51 80,781.06 181064521 12519204 20513323 16109991
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 7,19,527.88 45,208.23 79,718.58 80,157.05 174414188 11965881 19818988 15439731

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
  Volume (lakh) Value (₹ crore)
FY 2021-22 2021 April 2022 2022 FY 2021-22 2021 April 2022 2022
March April March April
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
A. Other Payment Channels                
1 Mobile Payments (mobile app based) 5,07,531.37 32,494.77 57,378.44 59,767.47 1,49,73,395 10,06,256 16,52,795 16,83,493
1.1 Intra-bank $ 40,805.69 2,563.99 4,218.03 4,515.92 27,26,360 1,91,178 2,98,556 3,12,756
1.2 Inter-bank $ 4,66,725.68 29,930.78 53,160.40 55,251.55 1,22,47,035 8,15,078 13,54,239 13,70,737
2 Internet Payments (Netbanking / internet browser based) @ 36,127.50 2,682.48 3,915.10 3,639.09 5,01,21,370 31,80,133 88,31,268 71,55,362
2.1 Intra-bank @ 7,375.30 567.04 995.71 964.04 2,35,05,766 13,52,169 53,47,683 42,88,061
2.2 Inter-bank @ 28,752.20 2,115.44 2,919.39 2,675.04 2,66,15,604 18,27,964 34,83,584 28,67,301
B. ATMs                
3. Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ 65,287.28 5,256.36 5,971.07 5,834.29 31,11,927 2,55,527 2,87,374 2,86,411
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 62.37 5.09 6.80 6.12 3,130 258 344 303
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 64898.80 5226.23 5932.11 5796.88 30,97,741 2,54,397 2,85,893 2,85,011
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 326.11 25.03 32.16 31.28 11,056 871 1,138 1,097
4. Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ 92.26 22.06 2.79 2.74 806 133 57 54
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 79.42 18.85 2.21 2.24 557 111 21 22
4.2 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 12.84 3.20 0.57 0.50 248 22 36 32
5. Cash Withdrawal at Micro ATMs @ 11126.04 725.35 1032.68 984.19 2,99,776 21,701 28,479 27,824
5.1 AePS @ 11126.04 725.35 1032.68 984.19 2,99,776 21,701 28,479 27,824

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (lakh)
  As on March 2022 2021 April 2022 2022
March April
1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1 Number of Cards 9,912.93 9,630.55 9,912.93 9,956.84
1.1 Credit Cards 736.27 622.60 736.27 751.66
1.2 Debit Cards 9,176.66 9,007.95 9176.66 9205.18
2 Number of PPIs @ 27,403.54 22,216.97 27,403.54 27,405.90
2.1 Wallets @ 24,645.39 20,249.78 24,645.39 24,748.38
2.2 Cards @ 2,758.15 1,967.19 2,758.15 2,657.52
3 Number of ATMs and CRMs 2.48 2.40 2.48 2.49
3.1 Bank owned ATMs$ and CRMs# 2.16 2.14 2.16 2.17
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.32 0.25 0.32 0.32
4 Number of Micro ATMs @ 7.81 4.14 7.81 8.16
5 Number of PoS Terminals 60.70 45.25 60.70 61.26
6 Bharat QR @ 49.72 40.28 49.72 40.90
7 UPI QR * 1727.34 978.19 1727.34 1807.21
@: New inclusion w.e.f. November 2019
#: Data reported by Co-operative Banks, LABs and RRBs included with effect from Dec 2021.
$ : Inclusion separately initiated from November 2019 - would have been part of other items hitherto.
*: New inclusion w.e.f. September 2020; Includes only static UPI QR Code
Note : 1. Data is provisional.
2. ECS (Debit and Credit) has been merged with NACH with effect from January 31, 2020.
3. The data from November 2019 onwards for card payments (Debit/Credit cards) and Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPIs) may not be comparable with earlier months/ periods, as more granular data is being published along with revision in data definitions.
4. Only domestic financial transactions are considered. The new format captures e-commerce transactions; transactions using FASTags, digital bill payments and card-to-card transfer through ATMs, etc.. Also, failed transactions, chargebacks, reversals, expired cards/ wallets, are excluded.

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