BHIM - UPI launched In Bhutan

Union Minister of Finance N.Sitharaman and her counterPart, Finance Minister of Bhutan, Lyonpo Namgay Tshering, jointly launched BHIM-UPI in Bhutan on 13 July 2021 virtually.

Now with BHIM-UPI, Bhutan has the first country to adopt UNIFIED PAYMENT INTERFACE (UPI) standard of India for its QUICK RESPONSE (QR) code.

It is also the second country after Singapore to have BHIM-UPI acceptance at merchant locations.

Bhutan has also became the only country to both issue and accept RuPay cards as well as accept BHIM-UPI.