SBI- Big news for SBI customers. If you are a customer of the country’s largest public sector bank, State Bank of India (SBI), and conduct transactions through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), then this news is important for you. The bank has announced on its official exchange account that UPI services will be temporarily suspended for a total of 45 minutes, from 12:15 am to 1:00 am on September 21, 2025.
The bank stated that customers may experience difficulties making regular UPI payments during this time. However, the bank stated that UPI Lite services will remain operational, allowing small transactions to continue without interruption. SBI apologized to customers for the inconvenience and assured them that this shutdown is only temporary.
What is UPI Lite?
It’s worth noting that UPI Lite is a payment solution. The lite version of UPI is called UPI Lite. While UPI payments require a 6- or 4-digit UPI PIN, UPI Lite allows money transfers without a PIN.
How to activate this feature?
- First of all open Paytm/PhonePe/GooglePay/BHIM app
- Now click on ‘UPI Lite Activate’ option.
- Select your bank account that you want to link to add money with UPI Lite.
- Enter the amount to add to the wallet.
- Enter UPI PIN.
- After this your UPI Lite Wallet account will be activated.<
Due to scheduled maintenance activity, SBI UPI services will be temporarily unavailable from 00:15 hrs to 01:00 hrs on 21.09.2025 (IST).
Customers may continue to use UPI Lite Services for uninterrupted service.
We regret the inconvenience caused to our customers.— State Bank of India (@TheOfficialSBI) September 20, 2025
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