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43. Payment System Indicators
Date : Feb 17, 2023
PART I - Payment System Indicators - Payment & Settlement System Statistics
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2021-22 2021 2022 FY 2021-22 2021 2022
Dec. Nov. Dec. Dec. Nov. Dec.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A. Settlement Systems                
Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)                
1 CCIL Operated Systems (1.1 to 1.3) 33.01 3.13 3.67 3.42 206873112 20703988 22488758 22326077
1.1 Govt. Securities Clearing (1.1.1 to 1.1.3) 12.22 1.10 1.26 1.19 142072939 14801512 15457897 15144169
1.1.1 Outright 6.22 0.48 0.66 0.60 8793301 651103 759097 711065
1.1.2 Repo 3.08 0.30 0.36 0.36 51015712 5075401 6039868 6125370
1.1.3 Tri-party Repo 2.92 0.31 0.23 0.23 82263926 9075009 8658933 8307734
1.2 Forex Clearing 19.91 1.96 2.33 2.16 59775826 5516604 6577286 6670289
1.3 Rupee Derivatives @ 0.88 0.07 0.08 0.07 5024347 385873 453575 511620
B. Payment Systems                
I Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)
1 Credit Transfers - RTGS (1.1 to 1.2) 2078.39 192.78 206.46 215.03 128657516 12966991 12291749 13736057
1.1 Customer Transactions 2063.73 191.50 205.30 213.80 113319292 11418233 10691727 12180091
1.2 Interbank Transactions 14.66 1.29 1.16 1.23 15338225 1548758 1600022 1555966
II Retail                
2 Credit Transfers - Retail (2.1 to 2.6) 577934.74 56422.79 84557.58 90675.95 42728006 4076395 4527540 4928331
2.1 AePS (Fund Transfers) @ 9.76 0.65 0.51 0.32 575 36 29 21
2.2 APBS $ 12573.33 1082.20 1065.62 1157.66 133345 14987 9460 20670
2.3 IMPS 46625.25 4429.86 4634.80 4858.37 4171037 396411 454679 486552
2.4 NACH Cr $ 18757.82 1483.71 1373.88 1515.84 1281685 113132 141901 157435
2.5 NEFT 40407.29 3763.38 4388.30 4854.81 28725463 2724980 2730878 2981681
2.6 UPI @ 459561.30 45662.99 73094.47 78288.95 8415900 826848 1190593 1281971
2.6.1 of which USSD @ 11.99 1.12 1.79 1.92 177 16 19 21
3 Debit Transfers and Direct Debits (3.1 to 3.3) 12189.49 1064.54 1316.60 1357.72 1034444 91163 110181 116425
3.1 BHIM Aadhaar Pay @ 227.73 19.59 14.52 12.71 6113 611 475 446
3.2 NACH Dr $ 10754.74 937.92 1164.17 1198.55 1026641 90426 109479 115737
3.3 NETC (linked to bank account) @ 1207.02 107.03 137.91 146.46 1689 126 227 242
4 Card Payments (4.1 to 4.2) 61782.93 5611.80 4955.95 5223.54 1701851 160398 170386 185149
4.1 Credit Cards (4.1.1 to 4.1.2) 22398.82 2112.59 2347.73 2556.47 971638 93907 114794 126524
4.1.1 PoS based $ 11124.59 1093.48 1319.99 1449.35 380643 36713 46296 51772
4.1.2 Others $ 11274.23 1019.10 1027.75 1107.12 590994 57195 68498 74752
4.2 Debit Cards (4.2.1 to 4.2.1 ) 39384.11 3499.21 2608.22 2667.08 730213 66491 55592 58625
4.2.1 PoS based $ 22967.10 2202.51 1779.41 1859.31 451550 43062 37237 39573
4.2.2 Others $ 16417.00 1296.71 828.81 807.77 278663 23429 18355 19052
5 Prepaid Payment Instruments (5.1 to 5.2) 65782.75 7008.04 6075.20 6354.65 279416 25878 22808 22648
5.1 Wallets 53013.86 5659.18 4730.07 5012.71 220183 21195 17342 18400
5.2 Cards (5.2.1 to 5.2.2) 12768.89 1348.86 1345.14 1341.94 59233 4683 5466 4248
5.2.1 PoS based $ 1116.16 99.63 77.72 61.58 19546 1893 1039 722
5.2.2 Others $ 11652.73 1249.23 1267.42 1280.37 39687 2790 4428 3527
6 Paper-based Instruments (6.1 to 6.2) 6999.12 660.33 586.94 608.13 6650333 640955 581120 621387
6.1 CTS (NPCI Managed) 6999.12 660.33 586.94 608.13 6650333 640955 581120 621387
6.2 Others 0.00
Total - Retail Payments (2+3+4+5+6) 724689.03 70767.50 97492.27 104220.00 52394049 4994790 5412034 5873940
Total Payments (1+2+3+4+5+6) 726767.42 70960.28 97698.73 104435.03 181051565 17961781 17703784 19609997
Total Digital Payments (1+2+3+4+5) 719768.30 70299.95 97111.79 103826.90 174401233 17320825 17122664 18988610

PART II - Payment Modes and Channels
System Volume (Lakh) Value (₹ Crore)
FY 2021-22 2021 2022 FY 2021-22 2021 2022
Dec. Nov. Dec. Dec. Nov. Dec.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A. Other Payment Channels                
1 Mobile Payments (mobile app based) (1.1 to 1.2) 506842.31 49877.80 79124.20 84909.51 14961371 1433961 1993302 2125480
1.1 Intra-bank $ 40805.69 3927.19 5342.59 5557.30 2726363 254443 355045 373813
1.2 Inter-bank $ 466036.62 45950.61 73781.61 79352.22 12235007 1179518 1638256 1751667
2 Internet Payments (Netbanking / Internet Browser Based) @ (2.1 to 2.2) 40726.59 3593.75 3487.32 3664.00 83159996 8602920 7808859 8591147
2.1 Intra-bank @ 9583.32 848.88 870.33 949.32 52142582 5691255 4606598 4923803
2.2 Inter-bank @ 31143.27 2744.87 2616.98 2714.68 31017413 2911666 3202261 3667344
B. ATMs                
3 Cash Withdrawal at ATMs $ (3.1 to 3.3) 65240.43 5923.80 5608.36 5891.49 3111946 280371 265635 280461
3.1 Using Credit Cards $ 62.37 5.90 7.59 8.13 3130 295 367 392
3.2 Using Debit Cards $ 64851.61 5889.14 5568.41 5850.03 3097739 279100 264180 278923
3.3 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 326.45 28.76 32.36 33.33 11076 977 1089 1146
4 Cash Withdrawal at PoS $ (4.1 to 4.2) 91.17 3.78 2.30 2.38 728 35 23 24
4.1 Using Debit Cards $ 79.42 3.71 2.28 2.37 557 35 23 24
4.2 Using Pre-paid Cards $ 11.75 0.07 0.02 0.02 171 0 0 0
5 Cash Withrawal at Micro ATMs @ 11126.04 940.20 944.92 934.53 299776 25208 25541 25484
5.1 AePS @ 11126.04 940.20 944.92 934.53 299776 25208 25541 25484

PART III - Payment Infrastructures (Lakh)
System As on
March 2022
2021 2022
Dec. Nov. Dec.
1 2 3 4
Payment System Infrastructures        
1 Number of Cards (1.1 to 1.2) 9912.93 10066.90 10283.34 10206.53
1.1 Credit Cards 736.27 689.49 806.06 811.87
1.2 Debit Cards 9176.66 9377.42 9477.28 9394.66
2 Number of PPIs @ (2.1 to 2.2) 15553.69 15111.90 16098.32 16234.69
2.1 Wallets @ 12787.93 12511.00 13269.83 13346.64
2.2 Cards @ 2765.76 2600.90 2828.48 2888.05
3 Number of ATMs (3.1 to 3.2) 2.52 2.45 2.55 2.57
3.1 Bank owned ATMs $ 2.20 2.15 2.20 2.20
3.2 White Label ATMs $ 0.31 0.30 0.36 0.37
4 Number of Micro ATMs @ 9.16 7.27 13.34 14.19
5 Number of PoS Terminals 60.70 54.98 73.52 75.50
6 Bharat QR @ 49.72 46.47 48.25 49.59
7 UPI QR * 1727.34 1440.10 2302.87 2379.44
@: New inclusion w.e.f. November 2019
#: Data reported by Co-operative Banks, LABs and RRBs included with effect from December 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.
Part I-A. Settlement systems
1.1.3: Tri- party Repo under the securities segment has been operationalised from November 05, 2018.
Part I-B. Payments systems
4.1.2: ‘Others’ includes e-commerce transactions and digital bill payments through ATMs, etc.
4.2.2: ‘Others’ includes e-commerce transactions, card to card transfers and digital bill payments through ATMs, etc.
5: Available from December 2010.
5.1: includes purchase of goods and services and fund transfer through wallets.
5.2.2: includes usage of PPI Cards for online transactions and other transactions.
6.1: Pertain to three grids – Mumbai, New Delhi and Chennai.
6.2: ‘Others’ comprises of Non-MICR transactions which pertains to clearing houses managed by 21 banks.
Part II-A. Other payment channels
1: Mobile Payments –
o Include transactions done through mobile apps of banks and UPI apps.
o The data from July 2017 includes only individual payments and corporate payments initiated, processed, and authorised using mobile device. Other corporate payments which are not initiated, processed, and authorised using mobile device are excluded.
2: Internet Payments – includes only e-commerce transactions through ‘netbanking’ and any financial transaction using internet banking website of the bank.
Part II-B. ATMs
3.3 and 4.2: only relates to transactions using bank issued PPIs.
Part III. Payment systems infrastructure
3: Includes ATMs deployed by Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) and White Label ATM Operators (WLAOs). WLAs are included from April 2014 onwards.

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