The RtR policy can help achieve India's commitment to reach carbon neutrality by 2070 during its transition to a green economy
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The Right to Repair (RtR) movement advocates for consumers' right to freely repair and modify their purchased products. RtR has been gaining momentum across the globe as a reaction to manufacturers making products harder to repair and designing them to become unusable quicker under the product design philosophy of "planned obsolescence". Worried about the increased resource consumption and waste generated by the production of short-lived products engineered to fail, the US and EU governments have passed legislation around mandatory RtR policies, with India following suit by launching an RtR portal for consumers.
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