{"id":5688,"date":"2022-12-25T09:09:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T03:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:40:18","slug":"right-to-repair-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/right-to-repair-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"Right to Repair Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Right to Repair Portal:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It aims to provide <strong>consumers with access to repair<\/strong> information for their products and reduce e-waste.<\/li>\n<li>It was launched by the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs (MCA) on National Consumer Rights Day 2022.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It provides information about the <strong>circular economy<\/strong>, which is the new economic model that focuses on repairing and reusing products, as opposed to throwing them away.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The portal brings together <strong>information from different sectors<\/strong>, including automobiles, consumer durables, mobile and electronics, and farming equipment.<\/li>\n<li>All public information related to products, services, warranties, terms, and conditions, etc. will also be easily accessible through this portal.<\/li>\n<li>It gives consumers access to affordable repair mobile phones, appliances, and other electronic devices by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) or third-party repairs.<\/li>\n<li>The aim is to offer a <strong>cheaper alternative to expensive replacements<\/strong> to customers, instead of buying new products altogether.<\/li>\n<li>The portal will carry information for enabling consumers to self-repair, knowing about authorized repairers, and promoting third party repairers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It will also benefit small repair shops, as a list of authorised third-party repairs will be provided.<\/li>\n<li>It also allows consumers to submit feedback and suggestions on products and services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Central Consumer Protection Authority?<\/h3>\n<p>Central Consumer Protection Authority is a regulatory body established in 2020 based on the provisions of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019. It aims to promote, protect and enforce the rights of consumers as a class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/right-repair-centre-asks-automobile-companies-join-unified-portal-9436898\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Govt asks automobile companies to onboard on right to repair portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right to Repair Portal aims to provide consumers with access to repair information for their products and reduce e-waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5688","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\/5688","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=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}