The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) vide notification dated 16th June 2022, has declared the computer resources relating to the Unified Payments Interface, Immediate Payment Service, and National Financial Switch, to be Critical Information Infrastructure of the National Payments Corporation of India, and the computer resources of its associated dependencies to be protected systems for the purpose of the said Act and authorize the following personnel to access the protected systems, namely: –
- any designated employee of the National Payments Corporation of India authorised by the National Payments Corporation of India to access the protected system;
- any team member of contractual managed service provider or third-party vendor who have been authorised by the National Payments Corporation of India for need-based access; and
- any consultant, regulator, government official, auditor and stakeholder authorised by the National Payments Corporation of India on case to case basis.
