{"id":11744,"date":"2023-06-01T08:27:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T02:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11744"},"modified":"2025-03-30T05:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:42:25","slug":"electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronics Repair Services Outsourcing (ERSO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Electronics Repair Services Outsourcing (ERSO)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It aims to promote India as a hub for repairing electronic goods and to assess the feasibility and potential of capturing 20% of the global repair service market within five years.<\/li>\n<li>The pilot is being held in Bengaluru and will be run for three months.<\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s e-waste policy will be modified to enable repair companies to domestically recycle 5% of imported goods by weight on a trial basis.<\/li>\n<li>The repaired goods will not be permitted to be sold in the domestic market.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>New provisions will be made to allow their exportation to regions other than their country of origin.<\/li>\n<li>Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Electronics &amp; IT.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Outsourcing?<\/h3>\n<p>Outsourcing refers to the practice of contracting or delegating certain business functions or tasks to external third-party organizations or individuals. It involves transferring the responsibility for specific activities to an external provider rather than handling them in-house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1928643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>MeitY launches pilot project on Electronics Repair Services Outsourcing (ERSO<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronics Repair Services Outsourcing aims to promote India as a hub for repairing electronic goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}