Union Ministry for Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal launched a right to repair portal on December 24, 2022.
- The portal will provide a platform to manufacturers to share the manual of product details with customers so that they can either repair the product themselves or through third parties, rather than depend on original manufacturers.
- Initially, mobile phones, electronic, consumer durables, automobile and farming equipments will be covered on the portal.
- The right to repair means customers no longer have to take their damaged or broken electronic products back to the original makers to get an authorized repair, and can instead fix things like phones or laptops themselves, or take them to lower-cost independent repair shops.
