If you mention income under 6 LPA they show Rupay variant also. The benefit of that being that you can link it to UPI and earn 1% cashback on scan and pay transactions at merchant establishments also and it counts towards your annual spend target of 2 lac to waive off the annual fee.
It is not discontinued. What happened is that earlier they used to offer this card as an upgrade to existing Axis credit card holders. Now it is not given. You can only get it as a separate card.
If you mention income under 6 LPA they show Rupay variant also. The benefit of that being that you can link it to UPI and earn 1% cashback on scan and pay transactions at merchant establishments also and it counts towards your annual spend target of 2 lac to waive off the annual fee.