India, Sept. 9 -- In a significant step towards revolutionising cross-border money transfers, Union Minister for Communications and Development of North Eastern Region, Jyotiraditya Scindia, today unveiled the UPI-UPU Integration Project at the 28th Universal Postal Congress in Dubai. The initiative brings together India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the Department of Posts (DoP), NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL), and the Universal Postal Union (UPU), paving the way for secure and affordable digital transactions across 192 countries.

The project aims to link UPI with the UPU Interconnection Platform (IP), combining the global reach of the postal network with the speed and low-cost efficiency of UPI. This means that famili...